Terrestrial or epiphytic shrubs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, pinnately veined, coriaceous. Inflorescences axillary, compact, umbelliform or racemose, the stout, short pedicels each subtended by a persistent, ovate bract and bearing basally a pair of subopposite, persistent, ovate bractlets. Flowers with the hypanthium clearly disarticulating from the pedicel by a conspicuously delineated groove fringed with apparently glandular, minute trichomes, coriaceous, campanulate; calyx lobes 5, triangular, erect; corolla thick walled, broadly urceolate or squatly campanulate, densely pilose within, the lobes 5, triangular, reflexed; stamens 10, nearly as long as the corolla tube, the filaments distinct, weakly adherent to the base of the corolla, pilose especially near the connective, the anther attached slightly below the middle, the anther sacs granular, strongly basally incurved with the lower 1/3 protruding inwardly or even turning upward, spurs and awns lacking, tubules small and rudimentary, the thecae dehiscing by lateral clefts extending from the apex to approximately the base; the base strongly curved; stigma truncate, the style filiform, the ovary inferior, 5-locular. Fruit a berry. Lateropora is a genus of two species known only from Panama.
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