Pseudomussaenda Wernham

Erect or sometimes probably scrambling shrubs or subshrubs. Leaves opposite (or lower leaves rarely in whorls of 3 in P. capsulifera), petiolate; stipules with 1–2 subulate lobes. Flowers fairly large, hermaphrodite, 5-merous, sessile, heterostylous, in several–many-flowered cymose terminal inflorescences; 1–several of the peripheral flowers have 1 of the calyx-lobes enlarged into a large coloured venose stipitate lamina. Calyx-tube elongate, ± oblong; lobes 5, ± subulate. Corolla-tube narrowly cylindrical, the upper part containing the anthers swollen; lobes (4–)5, ovate, induplicate-valvate, usually drawn out into a filiform appendage that is very evident in the buds which have 5 apical subulate projections; throat velvety hairy. Stamens always included in the swollen part of the tube. Style ± 3/4 the length of the corolla-tube in short-styled flowers; stigmas just exserted in long-styled flowers; stigma bilobed, the lobes thick, linear or ovoid. Ovary 2-locular, each locule with many ovules borne on the marginal portions of very narrowly oblong curved placentas which resemble lamellae. Fruit dry, mostly capsular, with rather incomplete loculicidal dehiscence or sometimes not dehiscent. Seeds small, reticulate.