Anastrabe

Shrubs or small trees, with stellate hairs on many parts. Leaves opposite or subopposite, lanceolate or oblong, entire or serrate, leathery. Flowers in axillary and terminal, many-flowered cymes; secreting oil for pollinators. Bracts in pairs at each branching of inflorescence and subtending pedicels. Calyx 5-lobed; lobes valvate, +/- as long as tube, posterior one slightly larger. Corolla bilabiate; tube much inflated on anterior side, narrow above, base +/- cylindrical, lower lip inflated, forming a deep pouch; lips longer than tube, ciliate and glandular on outer surface; posterior lip erect, deeply 2-lobed, exterior in bud; anterior lip pouch-shaped, shortly trifid; mouth open. Stamens 4, didynamous, ascending, included; filaments arising at top of narrow, basal part of corolla tube, much thickened at base where they embrace top of ovary; anterior pair twisted at base, bringing anthers to face front of flower above those of posterior pair; anthers bithecate, thecae divergent, confluent at maturity; staminode 1. Ovary bilocular, conical, tomentose; placenta T-shaped in cross section, whole surface ovuliferous; ovules many; style long, slender, semiterete, included, persistent; stigma simple. Fruit a woody, ovoid, septicidal capsule, surrounded by calyx. Seeds many, fusiform; testa deeply reticulate. x = 20 (1 report).