Leptactina Hook.F.

Shrubs or small trees, nearly always erect, rarely slightly scrambling or one species a prostrate shrubby herb. Leaves petiolate, opposite, sometimes slightly unequal, usually with distinct pubescent domatia; stipules usually conspicuous. Flowers mostly rather large, hermaphrodite, 4–6-merous in few–many-flowered cymes at the extremities of terminal shoots and lateral branches. Calyx-tube ellipsoid or obconic; tubular part of limb ± obsolete or only evident in fruit; lobes contorted, foliaceous, subequal, mostly erect during flowering, venose, persistent. Corolla-tube long, narrowly cylindrical; lobes linear or linear-lanceolate to elliptic, usually long and pointed, spreading, contorted in bud. Stamens sessile, inserted below the level of the throat, included or apex of anthers exserted, occasionally locellate; pollen grains single. Ovary 2-locular; ovules numerous on placentas attached to the septum; style usually with pollen-collecting hairs at the level of the anthers; stigma with 2 linear lobes exserted or mostly included. Fruit subglobose or oblong to oblong-conic, scarcely or slightly fleshy, often longitudinally ribbed. Seeds numerous, small, mostly angular, smooth and glossy, with a hilar pit.