Munronia
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Description
Unbranched or sparsely branched shrublets, sometimes suckering with apparently short-lived shoots.
Leaves simple to imparipinnate, often crenate to serrate.
Flowers hermaphrodite, solitary or in few-flowered thyrses, pseudopedicellate, usually white.
Petals 5, imbricate, adnate to staminal tube basally, rarely becoming free later.
Staminal tube narrowly cylindrical or weakly obconical, the margin with 10 entire or bilobed appendages or, rarely, with 10 reflexed filiform appendages recurved some distance below margin; anthers 10, pubescent, inserted on tube rim, alternating with appendages, connective often produced apically forming an appendage, which is rarely filiform.
Ovary 5-locular, each locule with two superposed ovules; stylehead capitate, sometimes with 5 stigmatic lobes.
Fruit a 5-valved loculicidal capsule, each locule with 1 or 2 seeds.
Seeds plano-convex with a bony tegmen with an outgrowth enveloping a thick sarcotesta (Cheek); embryo embedded in thin endosperm.