Epiphytic or terrestrial shrubs. Leaves coriaceous, plinerved or pinnately veined, petiolate. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, subfasciculate or racemose with few to many flowers; pedicels deciduous bibracteolate, usually with a sharply delineated disarticulation groove just beneath the flower. Flower with the hypanthium short cylindric or campanulate, the limb erect or spreading; calyx lobes (2-4)5, ovate or triangular, apiculate or acute; corolla subcylindric, elongate urceolate or subglobose, 5-lobed, the lobes triangular and subacute; stamens(8)10(12), equal, often nearly as long as the corolla, the filaments dis-tinct or connate, the anthers inserted dorsally near the base, firm, stout with strongly granular thecae, the tubules distinct, 1/4 to about as long as the anther sacs, opening by elongate introrse clefts, the connectives either all laterally and distally 2-spurred or alternately spurred and spurless (rarely spurs obscure or lacking), the spurs either acute and conspicuous or rounded and not very apparent; style filiform and often exserted. Fruit a leathery berry.
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