Ochthocharis

Perennial herbs, shrubs or undershrubs, young branches, petioles, peduncles and pedicels covered with minute rusty hairs. Leaves opposite, usually +/- equal at same node, ovate to broadly ovate, petiolate, with 5-7 longitudinal nerves. Inflorescences of terminal and axillary paniculate cymes. Flowers 5-merous. Calyx: tube/receptacle obovoid, shallowly undulate at margin, covered with very small brown hairs; lobes 0. Petals broadly ovate, +/- oblique, violet or rose. Stamens 10, equal or subequal; anthers linear, straight, with pedoconnective produced into a posterior, thick +/- square appendage and provided with 2 anterior subglobose tubercles. Ovary adnate by septa to inferior half of calyx tube/receptacle, 5-locular, with multi-ovulate placentas; style longer than stamens. Fruit capsular, dehiscing irregularly. Seeds many, curved.