Landolphia

Shrubs or woody climbers, climbing by sensitive inflorescences or tendrils (modified inflorescences), rarely dwarf shrubs or undershrubs, glabrous or hairy; sap milky. Leaves leathery, opposite, shortly petioled, penninerved; axillary glands minute, obscure, or subulate to filiform; stipules 0. Inflorescence terminal, many-flowered, corymbose or paniculate. Flowers small to medium-sized, sessile or pedicelled, white or often tinged with red or purple, scented. Calyx small, leathery, eglandular, divided almost to base. Corolla salver-shaped; tube +/- narrowly cylindric, widened and staminiferous near base or sometimes near or above middle; mouth somewhat constricted, glabrous; lobes overlapping to the left, usually longer than tube. Stamens 5; filaments short; anthers 4-locular, ovate to lanceolate, dehiscing to minutely 2-lobed base. Disc 0. Ovary entire, 1-locular, glabrous or hairy; ovules many from 2 parietal placentas; style terete; stigma level with base of anthers, conical from a thickened base, shortly bifurcate. Fruit a globose or pear-shaped berry, up to size of a small orange. Seeds few or many, embedded in pulp. x = 11.