Coptosperma

Shrubs to medium-sized trees. Leaves subcoriaceous to strongly coriaceous, puberulous to glabrous; tip often acute to obtuse; petioles mostly shorter than 3 mm, but may be up to 30 mm; stipules triangular to duck bill-shaped, never drying black. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, many-flowered; partial inflorescences generally +/- compact; bracts present; bracteoles scale-like, triangular to ovate, glabrous or ciliate, usually at base of ovary. Flowers generally 5-merous but few species with both 4- and 5-merous flowers, usually small. Calyx short, usually glabrous; lobes triangular, +/- as long as tube, or tube +/- truncate. Corolla: tube shorter than 10 mm; lobes usually shorter than 10 mm, usually glabrous outside, contorted. Stamens with anthers exserted from corolla tube. Ovary with 1-4(-8) ovules, pendulous or ascending from a small placenta or impressed in a large placenta. Fruit drupaceous, 1-locular, brown or sometimes red turning black. Seeds 1(2), suborbicular to ellipsoid; hilum irregular or rarely round; annulus absent; endosperm ruminate, at least around hilum.