Englerodaphne

Large shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, expanded, membranous. Flowers in heads or spikes; bracts 0. Calyx 4-lobed; tube cylindric; lobes ovate or lanceolate. Petals 4, bipartite, appearing as 8 linear or oblong lobes, almost as long as calyx lobes, membranous. Stamens 8, in two series; upper series in throat, the other slightly below; filaments very short; anthers linear. Ovary 1-locular, with a single ovule and with long, somewhat stiff hairs on upper part; style lateral, included; stigma simple or subglobose. Fruit dry, enclosed in persistent base of calyx tube. Seeds small.