Epiphytic shrubs. Leaves usually leathery. Inflorescences terminal, pedun-culate, the flowers capitate, surrounded by a broad involucre. Flowers with the calyx turbinate, the calycine cup cupuliform, truncate; corolla salverform, the tube broad, villous within, the lobes 5-10, narrow, spreading or reflexed, valvate; stamens 5-10, the anthers subsessile, dorsifixed, included or exserted, the fila-ments adnate to the corolla tube; ovary 2-4-celled. Fruits a syncarp, fleshy, baccate; seeds numerous, small, compressed, suborbicular, horizontally at-tached.
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