Fadogiella Robyns

Subshrubby herbs or shrubs, completely softly tomentose, mostly much branched. Leaves opposite or less often in whorls of 3, shortly petioled; stipules with triangular or sheathing connate bases and subulate appendages. Flowers fairly small in subsessile or shortly pedunculate, dense, many-flowered cymes. Buds thick, densely tomentose, cylindric or obovoid, obtuse or shortly acuminate at the apex. Calyx-tube globose with a short ± subundulate limb or teeth short, triangular. Corolla mostly yellow or greenish; tube cylindric, glabrous or hairy at the throat, with a ring of deflexed hairs inside; lobes reflexed, obtuse or shortly apiculate. Stamens inserted at the throat, anthers exserted. Ovary (3–)4–5-locular, each locule with a pendulous ovule; style slender, exserted; stigmatic club cylindric or coroniform, sulcate, (3–)4–5-lobed at the apex. Fruit globose, crowned with the calyx-limb, sometimes ribbed, containing (3–)4–5 pyrenes, ± glabrous.