| Perennial herbs, undershrubs or lianas, mostly with milky or watery juice. Leaves opposite or whorled, membranaceous, coriaceous or fleshy. Stipules wanting, very small or rudimentary. Flowers actinomorphic, usually 5-merous, rarely very large. Inflorescence consisting of extra-axillary or terminal panicles, racemes, umbels or cymes or flowers solitary. Calyx persistent, 5-lobed, the segments imbricate or separate in the bud, the tube short. Corolla sympetalous, shortly or deeply 5-fid, rotate, campanulate, infundibuliform, hypocrateriform or tubular; the segments commonly reflexed; aestivation imbricate, contorted or rarely valvate. Corona usually present, taking various forms and formed either wholly or partly by appendages to the corolla or the staminal... |
