Ancylanthos

Shrubs or shrublets, rigid, tomentose. Leaves opposite, rarely 3-nate, shortly petiolate, lanceolate or elliptic, somewhat paler on undersurface; stipules connate into a sheath, densely hairy within, distinctly subulate-caudate at apex. Flowers solitary or in few- to several-flowered, simple or branched, peduncled, pubescent to tomentose cymes; bracts small. Calyx 5-lobed, hairy; lobes much longer then saucer-shaped tube. Corolla 5-lobed, yellow or orange-yellow, hairy; lobes ovate or ovate-lanceolate, reflexed, shorter than tube; tube elongate, slightly curved, with a ring of reflexed hairs near base within throat. Stamens 5, arising in corolla throat, mainly included; filaments broadly linear, much shorter than anthers; anthers lanceolate-linear. Disc annular. Ovary 5-locular, with a single pendulous ovule in each locule; style slender, glabrous, shortly exserted, pollen presenter large, cylindrical, shortly 5-lobed at apex. Fruit a fleshy, globose drupe crowned with calyx limb, with 5 pyrenes.