Oedina Tiegh.

Shrubs to 2 m. or more from a single haustorial attachment; hairs stellate and dendritic; twigs slightly compressed to angular, soon terete. Leaves mostly opposite or subopposite, rarely clustered, shortly petiolate, penninerved. Flowers in racemes or spikes from axils and older nodes, few–many-flowered; bract small, unilateral. Calyx saucer-shaped to tubular, entire to shortly toothed. Corolla joined up to halfway, 5-lobed, radially symmetrical to slightly zygomorphic, yellow to red without any marked colour-banding, puberulous to hirsute, weakly explosive at anthesis; buds opening first by vents below the middle, only slightly expanded over the anthers; tube with a slight to marked basal swelling, only rarely with a short V-slit at anthesis; lobes usually erect, often partly cohering at tips, some or all sometimes spreading to slightly reflexed from near point of filament-insertion, occasionally coiled and tending to break off. Filaments attached 6–10 mm. above the base of corolla-lobes, slender, the upper part slightly thickened, ± articulate, the upper part coiling, collapsing and breaking off to various degrees; anthers basifixed, 4-thecous; connective-appendage minute to subulate. Style filiform; stigma ovoid to fusiform. Berry, where known, blue-green, ovoid-ellipsoid to obovoid; seed orange to red.