Abstract
Trees, small shrubs or shrublets; shrubs singlestemmed, or multistemmed from a lignotuber, branching monopodially or sympodially, young branches often angular and puberulous. Leaves estipulate or with a stipular ring (Nuxia),opposite, ternate, or in dense (pseudo)whorls of 3-7, rarely alternate on some lateral branches, sessile or petiolate (Nuxia), blade simple, in the genera other than Nuxia more or less ericoid, linear, with recurved margins and one or two stomatal grooves. Inflorescences terminal or rarely on axillary branches (Retzia), thyrsoid or dichotomously branched, ultimate branches with solitary flowers or heads of three or more flowers, often with a single compact head. Bracts various, but often with two foliose prophylls, often also bibracteate at the inflorescence nodes. Flowers bisexual, small to large. Calyx of 4–5 sepals, usually fused and tubular basally with 4–5 free, imbricate to valvate lobes; occasionally completely free.
See also Scrophulariaceae.
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Linder, H.P. (2004). Stilbaceae. In: Kadereit, J.W. (eds) Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18617-2_22
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