Stenanthera

Mainly low shrubs. Leaves often discolorous, lower surface with usually branching subparallel-palmate veins. Flowers bisexual, axillary; bracts several, grading in size to 2 large bracteoles immediately subtending sepals; corolla 5-partite, ± cylindric; tube with subbasal tufts or a ring of hairs internally, or with ridge-like outgrowths, rarely glabrous, sometimes externally hairy; lobes triangular to ovate, valvate in bud, erect or with recurved tips, usually bearded inside; anthers oblong to linear, ± exserted from corolla tube but obscured by corolla lobes; filaments distinctly flattened; nectary annular, ± toothed; ovary glabrous, 5-locular with 1 ovule per locule, style glabrous, filiform, equal to or longer than the corolla tube, stigma capitate to globose. Fruit a drupe, with a dry or pulpy mesocarp and a hard endocarp.