Bushy to straggly, terrestrial or epiphytic shrubs. Leaves alternate, less than 3 cm long, short petiolate, coriaceous, usually obscurely nerved. Inflorescence an axillary cluster of 1-6, often subsessile flowers subtended by a few, minute, subcoriaceous bracts and borne on basally bracteate and always apically bi-bracteolate pedicels. Flowers obscurely articulate with the pedicel and embraced by the closely subtending bracteoles; hypanthium campanulate to short cylindric; calyx lobes 4-5, suberect; corolla subcylindric or campanulate cylindric, 4-5-lobed; stamens usually twice as many as the corolla lobes but rarely of the same number as the lobes, the filaments ligulate, the anthers dorsally attached near the base, membranous, prolonged into (1)2 tubules and dehiscing by elongate, elliptical, introrse clefts; style filliform and about as long as the corolla, the stigma truncate; ovary inferior, (3)4-5-celled with numerous ovules and surmounted by a fleshy, mound-like ring. Berry coriaceous.
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