Fls 5-merous throughout; sep lanceolate to ovate, 1-5-nerved, often ciliate; stamens in some spp. alternating with minute, tooth-like staminodes; capsule partly or completely 10-locellar; herbs with rather small, sessile, often narrow lvs and usually several to many fls in an evidently cymose to racemiform or paniculiform infl. 200, cosmop. (Cathartolinum)
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