Erianthemum Tiegh.

Shrubs mostly 1–2 m. from a single haustorial attachment; hairs stellate and dendritic, longer ones on flowers subsimple; twigs terete. Leaves opposite, subopposite or partly alternate, sometimes clustered on short shoots, penninerved. Flowers generally few, sessile in heads, elsewhere sometimes shortly racemose or spicate; peduncles axillary, clustered at older nodes or terminal short shoots bearing (1–)2 pairs of leaves; bract unilateral, ovate to subcircular, concave, sometimes with a leafy limb. Receptacle generally long-hairy. Calyx cupular to tubular, subentire to shortly toothed. Corolla usually joined less than halfway, 5-lobed, radially symmetrical, mostly yellow to green, flushed orange on tube, silky villous or at least with stellate and some long subsimple hairs on buds; tube constricted above a basal swelling, glabrous or hairy inside; lobes spreading-reflexed from below the middle. Filaments attached well above the lobe-base, the upper thickened and flattened part breaking off with anthers when flower is opened; anthers 4-thecous, with a small bifid or hammer-shaped apical connective-appendage. Style filiform; stigma capitate. Berry orange, reddish or blue-green, with persistent calyx urceolate; seed orange to red.