Vincentella Pierre

Shrubs or trees. Stipules present, subulate and flattened to filiform, persistent or caducous. Leaves petiolate; lamina with lateral nerves ascending, raised and conspicuous on lower surface, secondary nerves absent, veins reticulate or oblique. Flowers congested in axils of current or fallen leaves, borne on long slender pedicels. Sepals 5, free to base, much smaller than petals, pilose externally especially at thickened apex. Corolla-lobes 5, strongly reflexed in old flowers; tube very short or nil. Stamens 5; filaments slender, ± equal to length of corolla; anthers ovate-cordate, apiculate. Staminodes well-developed, subulate, margin entire or denticulate. Ovary ovoid or subglobose, very densely pilose with long straight hairs, 5-locular; style slender. Fruit an ellipsoid berry, glabrous or puberulous. Seed solitary, ± ellipsoid; testa thin and brittle; scar lateral; endosperm scanty or absent; cotyledons fleshy, plano-convex; radicle basal.