Pleurostylia

Description

Pleurostylia is a small genus of shrubs in the bittersweet family containing 13 species. Of these 3 are accepted species names. Glabrous, unarmed, trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite. Inflorescence a pedunculate dichasial cyme, single or paired in a leaf axil. Flowers bisexual, rarely unisexual,. Sepals (4-)5, united at base. Petals (4-)5, greenish. Disk intrastaminal, (4-)5-lobed. Ovary superior, 2-locular, with only 1 fertile loculus. Stigma peltate, unlobed. Fruit indehiscent, a small nut, with a persistent lateral style. Seeds 1(-2), without an aril.