Fernandoa

Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, imparipinnate, frequently absent at flowering time. Flowers large, in short, few-flowered racemes or solitary, borne praecociously and in axils of fallen leaves. Calyx campanulate, irregularly 3-5-lobed, opening just before corolla anthesis. Corolla large, showy, brownish red to orange-red or yellow, broadly cup-shaped; tube short, narrowing abruptly into calyx; limb slightly bilabiate. Stamens 4, slightly exserted; staminode 1; thecae divaricate. Disc cupular. Ovary cylindric, narrow, bilocular; ovules pluriseriate in each locule. Capsule subcylindric, dehiscing at right angles to the thin flat septum. Seeds many, compressed, with hyaline wings.