Discaria Hook.

Evergreen or semideciduous shrubs, usually with spinescent short shoots. Leaves opposite, petiolate; stipules triangular, connate behind the petiole, persistent. Flowers bisexual, 4-or 5-merous, white or cream, in axillary clusters of up to 50 flowers. Hypanthium shortly tubular. Sepals erect to recurved, caducous. Petals cucullate, not clawed, incurved or erect, or absent. Stamens shorter than or subequal to petals, incurved or erect. Disc conspicuous, lining the hypanthium or forming a sinuous ring around the ovary, smooth, glabrous. Ovary half-inferior; carpels 3 (or 4); style entire or branched, glabrous. Fruit brown, a globular capsule; torus basal. Seed brown.