Psychotria

Shrubs or small trees. Leaves petiolate, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate or obovate; stipules lanceolate or ovate, caducous; colleters present. Flowers sessile or pedicellate, in panicles or terminal cymes. Calyx glabrous, persistent; tube saucer- or cup-shaped with minute teeth. Corolla 5-lobed, white, greenish white or yellow, glabrous; lobes reflexed, somewhat shorter than tube, valvate; tube campanulate or cylindric, hairy at throat. Stamens 5, arising in middle of corolla tube, slightly exserted; filaments +/- as long as anthers; anthers linear or oblong, glabrous or pilose. Disc hemispherical. Ovary 2-locular, with a single erect ovule in each locule; style filiform, long or short; stigma bifid, lobes linear. Fruit an oval drupe, with 1 or 2(-4) pyrenes. x = 11 (high polyploidy).