Pentachondra

Small or prostrate shrubs; branchlets glabrous to villous. Leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, concolorous to slightly discolorous, lower surface with few-many parallel veins. Flowers bisexual or unisexual, terminal or in the upper axils, solitary or rarely 2 close together (in a much reduced spike); bracts at base of inflorescences several, grading in size to 2 bracteoles that are inserted immediately below sepals; corolla 5-partite, narrowly urceolate to cylindric; inside of tube usually sparsely hairy; lobes triangular, valvate in bud, spreading to revolute, bearded inside; anthers oblong, enclosed in or exserted from corolla tube; filaments slender, adnate to corolla tube; nectary annular or in distinct scales; ovary glabrous to pubescent, 5(–7)-locular with 1 ovule per locule, style glabrous, or pubescent at base, long or short, stigma lobed. Fruit a drupe with pulpy mesocarp, the hard endocarp separating into pyrenes.