Leptostigma

Prostrate herbs, perennial; stems rooting at the nodes, glabrous to hirsute. Leaves opposite, petiolate; stipules connate to petioles forming a sheath around nodes. Flowers sessile to shortly pedicellate, solitary, terminal, bisexual; calyx 2–4-lobed, persistent in fruit; corolla tubular to funnel-shaped, 4- or 5-lobed, glabrous or with a few hairs outside, cream; stamens 4 or 5, inserted at base of corolla-tube, anthers long-exserted, without a terminal appendage; ovary inferior, 2-celled, ovules 1 per cell, style 2-lobed, stigmas filiform, exserted, more or less sessile. Fruit a dry and leathery to somewhat fleshy drupe with 1 or 2 seeds.