Rhaphiostylis

Glabrous, evergreen, straggling shrubs or woody lianes; bark smooth, dark grey; young branches dark purple. Leaves alternate, narrowly lanceolate to elliptic, entire, glossy dark green, petiolate. Flowers bisexual, in 4- to many-flowered supra-axillary fascicles; pedicels glabrous, +/- equalling flowers. Calyx small, 5-fid. Petals 5, valvate, free, white. Stamens 5; filaments compressed below, filiform above, alternipetalous. Ovary 1-locular with a filiform, persistent excentric style. Fruit an obliquely dorso-ventrally compressed, reticulately wrinkled drupe with a persistent style.