Gardneria Wall.

Mostly climbing or creeping, glabrous shrubs. Twigs terete, sometimes with 4 faint ridges. Leaves petioled, connected by interpetiolar stipular rims; at the base of the new shoots a number of persistent, acute-triangular bud-scales. Inflorescences axillary, dichasial, usually few-flowered or flowers solitary, sometimes lax and many-flowered; bracts narrowly triangular, 1-2 mm long. Flowers long-pedicelled, 4-5-merous. Calyx small, deeply lobed, lobes rounded, sometimes acuminate, shortly ciliate, for the rest glabrous, inside with colleters at the base. Corolla rotate, thin-fleshy, creamy to yellow, lobes valvate in bud. Stamens exserted, filaments very short, flat; anthers bifid at the base, introrse, 4-or 2-celled (if 4-celled the outer cells much bigger than the central ones). Pistil glabrous; ovary small, 2-celled, with 1-4 ovules per cell; style mostly long and slender; stigma capitate to 2-parted. Berry globular, red. Seeds 1 or more, elliptic to orbicular, concave on the hilar side, convex on the other; testa thin, endosperm thick, cartilaginous.