Rhaphiolepis
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Description
Unarmed small trees or shrubs, evergreen.
Leaves simple, margins entire or incised, nerves not terminating in the margin.
Stipules free.
Inflorescence a terminal, compound, rarely simple raceme.
Flowers bisexual, 5-merous.
Sepals and upper part of hypanthium caducous after anthesis.
Petals clawed.
Stamens 15-20.
Ovary inferior, top covered by the glabrous disk, 2-celled, styles 2, free or connate at base, ovules 2 per cell.
Fruit a pome, globular to (ob)ovoid, with a distinct circular scar at top, mesocarp fleshy, thin, endocarp thin.
Seeds 1 or 2 per fruit, large, testa thin and firm, endosperm absent, cotyledons thick.