Shrubs or small trees. Branches spreading horizontally, young twigs glabrous to pubescent. Leaves alternate, petiolate; blade oblong or elliptic, usually unequal-sided, long-acuminate, basally cuneate to obtuse, chartaceous, glabrous or pubescent, pinnately nerved. Inflorescence axillary. Flowers 5-merous, subsessile or shortly pedicelled, solitary or 2–4 or clustered in the leaf axils, bracteate. Calyx-tube cylindric, usually elongate, ± pubescent, sometimes glandular; lobes 5, usually pubescent outside. Petals 5, shorter or longer than the calyx-lobes, often divided nearly to the base, entire, laciniated or irregularly shaped at the top, white or very pale yellow. Stamens 10, in two whorls in the throat of the calyx-tube; episepalous filaments slightly longer than the alternisepalous; anthers included or exserted. Ovary shortly stipitate, 1-locular, glabrous or pubescent; disc cup-shaped, ± deeply lobed, fleshy or membranous; style slender; stigma clavate or capitate, included or exserted. Fruit drupe-like, spherical or elongate, brown, red or orange, enclosed in the persistent base of the calyx-tube. Seed with thin testa often fixed to the hard pericarp.
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