Oedina

Aerial, hemiparasitic shrubs, up to 2 m or more, from a single haustorial attachment; twigs slightly compressed to angular, soon terete; hairs stellate and dendritic. Leaves mostly opposite or subopposite, rarely clustered, shortly petiolate, penninerved. Inflorescence few- to many-flowered racemes or spikes from axils and older nodes; bract small, unilateral. Calyx saucer-shaped to tubular, entire to shortly toothed. Corolla 5-lobed, regular to slightly irregular, joined up to halfway, yellow to red, puberulous to hirsute, weakly explosive at anthesis; tube with a slight to marked basal swelling, only rarely with a short V-split at anthesis; lobes usually erect, often partly cohering at tips, occasionally spreading to coiled. Filaments arising 6-10 mm above base of corolla lobes, +/- articulate, upper part coiling; anthers 4-thecous, basifixed. Style filiform; stigma ovoid to fusiform. Berry, where known, blue-green, ovoid-ellipsoid to obovoid. Seed orange to red.