Genus Baeckea Family Myrtaceae
Description: Shrubs or small trees.

Leaves opposite, margins entire, crenate or finely ciliate-toothed, shortly petiolate.

Inflorescences axillary, 1-flowered. Flowers 5-merous, white; bracteoles 2, caducous or persistent. Calyx persistent in fruit. Petals free. Stamens 4–12; anthers opeining by longitudinal slits, gland-tipped. Ovary half-inferior, (1-)2-(-3) locular; placentation axile; stigma capitate.

Fruit a loculicidal capsule.

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