Burchellia

Shrubs or small trees. Leaves shortly petiolate, obovate-oblong, obtuse, leathery; stipules cuspidate, deciduous. Flowers in many-flowered clusters or heads. Calyx 5-lobed, pubescent within and without; lobes linear, longer than tube; tube campanulate. Corolla 5-lobed, lobes ovate, much shorter than tube; orange to dark red, hairy; tube funnel-shaped, with ring of hairs near base. Stamens 5, arising in upper part of corolla tube, included; anthers sessile, linear, with ovate, apical appendage. Disc tumid. Ovary 2-locular, with many ovules in each locule; style terete, +/- included; stigma thick, lanceolate-elliptic, ribbed. Fruit a globose, 2-locular, many-seeded berry, crowned with persistent calyx. Seeds somewhat compressed, transversely oblong, with +/- whorled ridges. x