Oftia

Dwarf shrubs or shrubs, glabrous, villous or sometimes viscid-pubescent; branches decumbent to ascending. Leaves usually opposite or somewhat verticillate in basal parts, sometimes alternate above, closely set, sessile or with narrowed base, margins revolute and variously closely dentate or serrate, bases +/- decurrent into ridges on young stems. Flowers solitary in axils of upper leaves, pedicellate or subsessile, sometimes bracteolate; axis may continue to grow after flowering. Calyx deeply and +/- regularly 5-lobed; lobes linear to subulate with stalked glands or glabrous. Corolla 5-lobed and +/- regular; tube cylindrical, often a little dilated at throat, villous inside in upper half; lobes much shorter than tube, subequal, imbricate, posterior lobes exterior in bud. Stamens 4, subequal, included; filaments short, filiform, arising +/- in middle of corolla tube; anthers bithecate, narrowly oblong; thecae parallel. Nectary 0. Ovary bilocular, with usually 4 pendulous ovules in each locule; style short, well included; stigma somewhat thickened, oblique. Fruit a small, globose, succulent drupe. Seeds hard, somewhat rugose.