Viridivia

Small trees or shrubs without tendrils. Leaves mostly ovate or elliptic, denticulate, hairy on both surfaces. Flowers bisexual, usually developing before leaves, in dense racemes at end of short branches; bracts small, carinate, acute, soon caducous. Sepals 4, imbricate, sericeous outside, 3-7-nerved. Petals 4, smaller than sepals, 1-nerved. Corona shortly tubular, irregularly fimbriate and with clavate whitish glands. Stamens 10-16; filaments free and hairy; anthers oblong. Ovary globose, stipitate, 1-locular; styles 4-6 with fleshy, kidney-shaped stigmas; ovules +/- 50, anatropous, arranged in 2 rows on 4 or 5 placentas. Capsule subglobose, stipitate. Seeds ovoid, compressed, included in a cupulate aril.