Eriobotrya
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Description
Unarmed trees or shrubs, evergreen.
Leaves simple, margin dentate or entire, main nerves terminating in the margin.
Stipules free or intrapetiolarly connate.
Inflorescence a terminal, compound raceme.
Flowers bisexual, 5-merous.
Sepals persistent.
Petals clawed, white.
Stamens 15-40.
Ovary semi-inferior to inferior, the hairy top of the connate carpels free from the hypanthium, 2-5-celled, styles as many as cells, usually connate at base, ovules 2 per cell.
Fruit a pome, crowned by the persistent sepals, mesocarp fleshy or with many stone-cells, endocarp s free from each other, membranous, each containing one seed.
Seeds large, testa thin but hard, endosperm absent, embryo with thick cotyledons.