Discopodium

Hochst.
Description: 
Small trees or shrubs. Leaves petiolate, entire, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, broadly acuminate, cuneate at base, glabrous or slightly pubescent on midrib. Flowers small, in axillary fascicles; pedicels longer than flowers. Calyx +/- half as long as corolla, with 5 spreading, broadly triangular lobes, scarcely accrescent. Corolla cylindric, tomentellous outside above calyx; lobes 5, half as long as tube, +/- reflexed or spreading. Stamens included, arising above middle of corolla tube; filaments short, filiform; anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Style short, included. Fruit a globose berry 6-8 mm in diameter.
Distribution: 
Species 1-3; monotypic according to D
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 

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