Cylindropsis

Robust lianas with white latex; branches grey-brown with many lenticels. Leaves opposite, petiolate, glabrous, narrowly elliptic to obovate, apex apiculate, often with a long acumen, with 7-14 pairs of conspicuous secondary veins. Inflorescences : 3-20-flowered +/-congested cymes, axillary or sometimes also terminal; peduncle and pedicels glabrous. Sepals 5, small, ovate, ciliate; colleters absent. Corolla salver-shaped; tube +/-cylindric, widening in upper half, usually glabrous outside and below stamens on inside, variously hairy above stamens; lobes 5, narrowly oblong-triangular, half as long to as long as tube. Stamens included; filaments +/-half as long as anthers, usually with a tuft of hairs around base; anthers narrowly ovate, apiculate, dehiscing to base. Ovary subglobose, variously pubescent in upper part, 1(2)-locular, gradually narrowing into a glabrous filiform style; style head clavate with 2-lobed stigmoid apex. Fruit a syncarpous, globose to ovoid, many-seeded berry; pericarp smooth; pulp creamy, slimy. Seeds ellipsoid; testa thin; endosperm thin; cotyledons ellipsoid.