Melichrus

Procumbent to erect shrubs. Leaves ± discolorous, the lower surface with unbranched parallel veins. Flowers bisexual, axillary, solitary, on hardened current or previous season's wood; bracts several, grading in size to 2 bracteoles immediately subtending sepals; corolla 5-partite, urceolate to rotate-campanulate; inside of surface of tube with tufts or a ring of papilla-like glandular hairs near base; lobes triangular to ovate, valvate in bud, erect to spreading, with scattered long hairs inside; anthers oblong-rectangular, usually enclosed within corolla tube; filaments distinctly flattened, adnate to base of corolla tube; nectary annular; ovary glabrous, 4–6-locular with 1 ovule per locule, style glabrous, short, conic, stigma small, inconspicuous. Fruit a drupe, with a slightly pulpy mesocarp and a hard endocarp.