Shrubs 0.5–2 m., with a single haustorial attachment, glabrous. Leaves mostly alternate and also crowded on short shoots, penninerved. Flowers 2–4, umbellate on a short peduncle or clustered on short shoots of generally leafless branches, shortly pedicellate; bract ovate-triangular from a saucer-shaped based. Calyx cupular. Corolla joined about halfway, 4-lobed, radially symmetrical, with fluted vents opening at top of tube, not explosive when opened, the lobes recurving. Stamens inserted above the base of the corolla-lobes, remaining weakly attached to the style-tip by connective-appendage; anthers 4-thecous, with a conspicuous bifid connective-appendage. Style filiform; stigma capitate. Berry obovoid.
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