Warneckea

Trees or shrubs; young branchlets 4-angled to subterete, usually thickened at nodes, later terete. Leaves subsessile to shortly petiolate , longitudinally 3-nerved, lateral nerves mostly not merging with middle nerve near apex; sphaeroidal sclereids present and surface therefore often granular. Inflorescences (1)2- to many-flowered cymes, axillary or on old wood, sometimes arranged in axillary panicles; bracts minute. Flowers 4-merous, small. Calyx: tube/receptacle subhemispheric to broadly campanulate; limb 4-toothed or -lobed. Petals broadly ovate, whitish or bluish. Stamens 8, equal, sometimes 4 with abortive anthers. Ovary 1-locular, adherent to calyx tube/receptacle; style filiform; ovules 2-12, on a central placenta. Fruit a +/- globose 1(2)-seeded berry crowned by persistent calyx. Seeds large; embryo straight, without hypocotyl, cotyledons unequal or 1 rudimentary.