Sherbournia

Scandent shrubs or lianes. Leaves opposite, petiolate, mostly thinly coriaceous; stipules rather large, oblong or elliptic, obtuse, deciduous. Flowers bisexual, in 1-several-flowered inflorescences on one side of stem at successive nodes, often +/- sessile. Calyx: tube turbinate, sometimes ribbed; tubular part of free limb short; lobes 5, rather large, obtuse, contorted and overlapping to the right. Corolla rather large; tube funnel-shaped to campanulate, constricted at base, thickly silky outside, glabrous inside save for a densely barbate portion at base in constriction; lobes 5, short and broad, overlapping to the left. Stamens: anthers +/- sessile, arising in throat of corolla; pollen grains single. Ovary 2(3)-locular, obconic; style clavate, sulcate; stigma scarcely separating into 2 lobes; ovules many, immersed in vertical rows on 2 placentas. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid. Seeds many, reticulate and wavy-rugulose.