Apocynoideae
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Description
Trees, shrubs or climbers.
Leaves opposite or, rarely, in whorls;
Inflorescence cymose, rarely fasciculate or flowers solitary;
Flowers 5-merous;
Sepals usually with colleters inside.
Stamens inserted on the inside of the corolla tube;
Ovary of 2 separate carpels united into a common style, sometimes postgenitally fused (Parsonsia, Wrightia p.p.);
Fruit a pair of follicles, sometimes single by abortion or postgenital fusion.
Seeds with an apical and/or basal coma, this rarely lacking (Eucorymbia).
Distribution
Asia-Tropical
Native Malesian genera — Aganosma, Amphineurion, Anodendron, Baharuia, Beaumontia, Carruthersia, Chonemorpha, Cleghornia, Ecua, Epigynum, Eucorymbia, Holarrhena, Ichnocarpus, Kibatalia, Micrechites, Papuechites, Parameria, Parsonsia, Pottsia, Spirolobium, Strophanthus, Trachelospermum, Urceola, Vallariopsis, Vallaris, Wrightia.