Dictyandra

Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, petiolate, with domatia; stipules flattened, triangular and erect or rounded and bent back. Flowers bisexual, 5-merous, pedicellate, in terminal corymbs. Calyx: tube ovoid or turbinate; tubular part of limb short; lobes +/- erect, contorted. Corolla with tube about equalling lobes; lobes narrowly lanceolate, contorted. Stamens: anthers exserted, subsagittate, thecae simple, or locellate with 4 vertical lines of small compartments. Ovary 2-locular, thick-walled, with an ovate peltate placenta covered with very many ovules; style rather thick, with an exserted bilobed stigma. Fruit globose or ellipsoid, crowned with persistent calyx lobes. Seeds squarish, angular, small, black, shining and smooth, with a hilar pit.