Phragmanthera Tiegh.

Shrubs, often large and pendent, with a single haustorial attachment; branchlets slightly compressed; youngest parts, at least, always with scales, stellate and verticillately branched dendritic hairs. Leaves opposite, subopposite or rarely ternate, generally petiolate, usually somewhat coriaceous, penninerved. Flowers in sessile to shortly pedunculate umbels or 2–several in the axils; bract unilateral, often gibbous, sometimes enlarged and foliaceous. Calyx annular to shortly tubular, generally shorter than receptacle, subentire to shortly lobed. Corolla 5-lobed, with tube longer than lobes, usually yellow or orange with red markings or more generally reddish, but colours often muted by indumentum; apical swelling of bud fusiform to globular, sometimes ribbed or narrowly winged; basal swelling variably developed; tube split unilaterally, the V-slit extending little more or less than halfway, papillate along sutures and edges of filament-lines to varying degrees; lobes erect or reflexed, narrow below, the upper part expanded to varying degrees and often hardened inside. Stamens attached near the base of the lobes, linear, inrolled at anthesis, sometimes with a tooth in front of the anther; anther oblong to linear-oblong, with 4 thecae transversely divided into several–many chambers. Style slender, 5-angled or narrowly 5-winged, often expanded opposite the filaments and narrowed opposite anthers, sometimes papillate or hairy; stigma globular to obovoid or conical-ovoid. Berry reddish or often blue to blue-green, ellipsoid or obovoid, generally with persistent calyx.