Ximenia
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Description
Shrubs or low trees;
Leaves spiral, sometimes fascicled on brachyblasts, penninerved.
Inflorescences axillary or at the end of brachyblasts, arranged in rather few-flowered peduncled, sometimes umbel-like cymes, or in fascicles, rarely solitary;
Flowers usually bisexual, rarely functionally unisexual.
Petals 4 (rarely 5), free, linear-oblong, finally revolute about halfway, with a brush of hairs on the inner surface.
Stamens 8 (rarely 10), free, hypogynous, alternately epipetalous and episepalous;
Ovary sessile, superior, (3-) 4-locular;
Fruit superior, drupaceous, with a rather thin pulpy pericarp, and a crustaceous to woody endocarp.
Seed 1;