Photinia
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Description
Unarmed trees or shrubs, evergreen or deciduous, Malesian species all evergreen.
Leaves simple, entire to serrate, the secondary nerves not running to the margin.
Stipules free.
Inflorescence a terminal, panicle- or corymb-shaped compound raceme.
Flowers bisexual, 5-merous.
Sepals persistent.
Petals more or less distinctly clawed.
Stamens 16-25.
Ovary semi-inferior, usually hairy on the exposed, free top, (l-)2-5-celled, styles as many as cells, connate at base or free, ovules 2 per cell.
Fruit a pome, covered at apex by the persistent free part of the hypanthium and the sepals, core consisting of the bony endocarp.
Seeds 1 or 2 per cell, rather small, testa rather hard, endosperm thin or absent.