Thymelaeaceae
A natural order of trees or shrubs, very rarely slender, annual herbs, broadly dispersed. Flowers hermaphrodite, or by abortion polygamous or dioecious, regular, capitate or shortly racemose or spicate, rarely solitary; perianth inferior, petaloid or rarely herbaceous; lobes or segments four or five, imbricated in aestivation, simple, or the two inner ones rarely rather smaller; scales equalling, or often twice or rarely thrice as many as, the lobes; stamens as many, or twice as many, as the lobes; filaments filiform, short; hypogynous disk annular, cup-shaped; ovary sessile or shortly stipitate; bracts variable. Fruit nearly always indehiscent, a nut, berry, or drupe. Leaves opposite, or often alternate or scattered, entire, sometimes numerous and small, sometimes ample; stipules absent. The order includes about thirty-eight genera and 360 species. Examples: Daphne, Gnidia, Lagetta, Phaleria, Pimelea.