Coddia

Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite or, more usually, densely clustered on dwarf side branchlets; stipules ovate-triangular. Flowers solitary, axillary, 1-3 together at ends of abbreviated shoots. Calyx 5-lobed; lobes elliptic, linear-oblong, usually ovate; tube ellipsoid; limb campanulate. Corolla 5-lobed, white; lobes oblong-elliptic; tube with base cylindric, upper part funnel-shaped, with a circular band of long hairs within. Stamens 5, arising in corolla mouth, partly included; anthers linear, sessile, apiculate. Ovary 2-locular; ovules +/- 5-8 on thin, broadly attached placenta on fleshy locule septum; style narrowly clavate, winged at apex. Fruit 2-locular, indehiscent, crowned with persistent calyx lobes. Seeds compressed, ovoid-angular. x = 11 (1 report, aneuploids).