Family: Lythraceae

Description: 

Large shrubs to small trees, to 4 m tall; branchlets usually ending in spines. Leaves simple, opposite, ,oblong-lanceolate to obovate or elliptic. Flowers scarlet red or orange-red, 3 cm or more across. Calyx reddish, somewhat succulent; lobes 5-7. Petals and stamens inserted at the throat of the calyx. Petals broadly obovate, wrinkled, alternating with the sepal lobes. Fruit globose, 2-8 cm in diameter, sometimes persistent, pale red to scarlet, or brownish, partitioned by thin leathery yellow septa; seeds red or pink, c. 10 mm long, testa thick, fleshy and juicy.