Straggly to compact, epiphytic or terrestrial shrubs. Leaves alternate, petio-late, coriaceous, pinnately veined or plinerved. Inflorescence axillary or termi-nal, subfasciculate or racemose with few to many flowers on deciduously bibrac-teolate pedicels. Flowers with the hypanthium articulate with the pedicel, short cylindric or campanulate; calyx limb erect and spreading (3-4)5-lobed, the seg-ments subacute and triangular; corolla subcylindric or elongate urceolate, 5-parted, the lobes triangular and subacute; stamens usually 10, equal, usually about half as long as the corolla, the filaments distinct or connate, dorsally at-tached to the anthers near their bases, the anthers stout with strongly granular thecae, the tubules about as long as the anther sacs, either laterally connate or fused into a single tubule, rarely completely distinct, opening by elongate, dis-tinct or fused, introrse clefts; style filiform and about as long as the corolla or longer, basally surrounded by an annular or cupuliform disc; the ovary inferior. Fruit a berry with numerous, small seeds.
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