Phylica

Shrublets, shrubs, rarely small trees. Leaves alternate, often ericoid or ovate to lanceolate, with revolute margins; stipules rarely present. Flowers solitary, axillary or in spikes, racemes, or heads. Calyx 5-lobed; lobes ovate to linear, often with a prominent median nerve or keel on inner face; tube variably expanded, usually with some type of pubescence. Disc usually fused with calyx tube, variable. Petals 5, rarely fewer or absent, small, clawed. Stamens 5, inserted below petals; filaments short; anthers 1- or 2-thecous. Ovary inferior, 3-locular; style minutely 3-lobed. Fruit mostly capsular, crowned with persistent base of calyx. Seeds +/- 3-sided, smooth.