Dermatobotrys

Glabrous, epiphytic, softly woody, branched shrubs; stems +/- quadrangular. Leaves opposite and decussate, ovate or elliptical, petiolate, strongly toothed or repand-dentate; fleshy. Flowers usually 3 together, clustered at nodes of branchlets, shortly pedicellate; bracteate. Calyx 5-lobed, much shorter than corolla tube; lobes equal, lanceolate, valvate, glandular-papillose. Corolla slightly irregular, 5-lobed; tube long, somewhat incurved, cylindrical and ribbed in lower part, there also with stiff white hairs inside, funnel-shaped above; lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, equal, much shorter than tube, posterior lobes outside in bud. Stamens 5, equal; filaments filiform, very short, subsessile, arising in corolla throat; anthers oblong, erect, bithecate, just appearing at mouth of corolla; thecae equal, parallel; staminodes 0. Nectary hypogynous, pulvinate, almost obsolete. Ovary bilocular, ovoid; ovules many; style filiform, equal or longer than corolla tube; stigma minutely bifid. Fruit a bilocular, ovoid-conical, fleshy, indehiscent berry. Seeds ellipsoid; testa thin, covered with short, disconnected ridges. x = 19 (1 report).