Correa

Shrubs to small trees, with stellate hairs. Leaves opposite, simple, margins entire or crenate. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, cymose. Flowers bisexual, 4-merous; sepals fused into an unlobed or 4-(8-)lobed cup; petals valvate, fused for most of their length or sometimes separating (C. alba, C. aemula), persistent or deciduous; stamens 8, free, erect; disc 8-lobed; carpels 4, 1-locular, lacking sterile apex, style arising from c. middle of the carpels, ovules 2 per loculus. Follicles not transversely ridged; seeds dull brown, released explosively with elastic endocarp.