Teedia

Biennial or perennial, low, woody shrubs or coarse herbs; stems ridged because of decurrent leaf bases, glandular-pubescent. Leaves opposite, subovate, sessile or narrowed near base but base usually +/- widened or even auriculate, denticulate. Flowers in axils of upper leaves or bracts, pedicellate, usually bibracteolate and sometimes with lateral flower buds in their axils, in axillary or terminal cymes, sometimes forming a sympodial thyrse. Calyx 5-lobed; tube very short; lobes longer, linear-lanceolate, slightly imbricate. Corolla tubular, subregular, 5-lobed, deciduous; tube cylindrical, exceeding or sometimes equalling calyx, bearded in upper part; lobes shorter than tube, obovate, posterior lobes exterior in bud. Stamens 4(5), didynamous, included; filaments short, arising near base of corolla tube; anthers oblong, bithecate, with thecae parallel; rudimentary or functional fifth stamen sometimes present. Ovary bilocular, subglobose; ovules many; style short, fleshy; stigma ovoid, capitate, rugose, cleft at apex. Fruit a subglobose berry or sometimes a drupe, indehiscent. Seeds many, dull black, +/- ovoid, rugose and reticulate. x = 12, 19 (1 report each).