Dalhousiea

Scandent shrubs or lianes up to 40 m long; branches pubescent to glabrescent. Leaves unifoliolate, ovate-elliptic to ovate, cuneate to subcordate at base, coriaceous, glabrous above, softly silky-pubescent to glabrescent below; stipules ovate, cordate at base, caducous; stipes absent. Inflorescences axillary or terminal cymes, unequally dichotomous; or flowers sometimes arranged in pseudopanicles; bracts ovate to suborbicular, persistent or caducous. Flowers bisexual; pedicel with 2 bract-like bracteoles at apex completely enveloping flower bud. Calyx campanulate with 5 short, unequal +/- triangular teeth. Corolla exserted; standard suborbicular with short claw at base, emarginated at apex; wings obliquely oblongish; keel of petals resembling wings, cohering along proximal margin. Stamens 10, free, subequal; anthers oblongish-linear. Ovary sessile, narrowing into a slightly incurved style; stigma small, capitate; ovules 2 or 3. Pod oblong, tapering towards both ends, flattened, coriaceous, dehiscent. Seeds 2 or 3, lenticular.