Ixonanthaceae

Trees up to 30 m. or shrubs with leaves alternate, simple, entire or serrate, penninerved; stipules small or absent. Inflorescence a terminal or axillary cyme or raceme. Flowers bisexual, ± regular, ± hypogynous, in racemose to cymose inflorescences, mostly 5-merous. Sepals ± imbricate, petals free, imbricate or convolute, persistent in fruit. Stamens 5, 10, 15 or 20, in 1 whorl. Ovary superior or slightly inferior, syncarpous, carpels 5 with simple style and stigma. Locules often divided incompletely by outgrowths of the carpel wall, with 2 pendulous ovules in each locule. Fruit a capsule with valves splitting away from the central column.