Ardisiandra Hook.F.

Pubescent herbs, creeping and rooting at the nodes or more or less acaulescent. Leaves petiolate, alternate, ovate to orbicular, coarsely lobed and toothed. Flowers small, pedicellate, bracteate, in few-flowered short extra-axillary sessile or pedunculate racemes; bracts linear, situated at or near the base of the pedicels. Calyx-segments 5 (rarely and abnormally up to 7) ± ovate, acute, ciliate, sometimes somewhat accrescent. Corolla campanulate; lobes 5, about 1/3 of the length of the corolla, sometimes ciliate. Stamens shortly connate at the base into a ring which is adnate to the corolla; filaments short; anthers apiculate. Ovary globose, setulose. Capsule globose, dehiscing by 5 short cartilaginous valves, or indehiscent. Seeds 3angled, minutely papillose. It is very closely related to Cortusa L. with a few species in central Europe and Asia.