Ancylobothrys Pierre

Sarmentose shrubs or lianas, at least partly with a rusty brown indumentum, with large curled tendrils; latex present. Leaves opposite, petiolate, exstipulate. Inflorescence a long terminal panicle, with sensitive branches, these later becoming climbing hooks. Flowers sweet-scented. Sepals green, often seemingly rusty brown by indumentum, usually without colleters. Corolla white or nearly so; tube narrow, often thickened above the stamens, glabrous or pubescent outside; corolla lobes overlapping to the left, fringed with white hairs. Stamens deeply included, inserted at the lower quarter of the tube; anthers narrowly triangular, cordate at the base, keeled along the back, glabrous. Ovary unilocular, hairy, abruptly narrowed into the style; pistil head of a subglobose or cylindrical stigmatic basal part and a short, bilobed stigmoid apex. Fruit a berry, yellow to red, globose or pear-shaped or nearly so, rounded at the apex, softly velutinous. Seed with horny endosperm, surrounding the embryo.