Neillia
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Description
Unarmed shrubs, erect, scandent, or creeping.
Leaves simple, lobed and dentate.
Stipules free.
Flowers in terminal racemes or panicles, 5-merous, bisexual.
Sepals imbricate, acuminate.
Petals (sub)orbicular, white.
Stamens 6-40.
Fruit a dry follicle, protruding from the enlarged hypanthium.
Seeds several, with hard and shining testa;
Distribution
Asia-Temperate: Korea present, Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Vietnam (Vietnam present), from the Himalayan region through China present
About 12 species, from the Himalayan region through China to Korea and to Vietnam, one species also in Malesia: Sumatra and Java. — .