Blinkworthia Choisy
Flowers solitary, nodding; corolla waxy, limb erect, subentire or shallowly 5-dentate; slender woody twiners (in China); sepals ± enclosing fruit
Least concern
Erect shrubs, trailing shrubs or climbers with slender branches; Stem white villous or strigose throughout trunks and branches; Leaves petiolate; Oblong, linear or elliptic sparsely strigose beneath.
Flowers axillary solitary, nodding and shortly pedunculate; Bracts 2-4, small coriaceous, sepal-like or leaflike, inserted in a whorl a little below calyx; Sepals 5, ovate-oblong to circular, slightly accrescent, subequal, coriaceous, slightly enlarged and woody (not coloured) in fruit; Corolla campanulate, waxy-white, pale green or yellow; limb erect, subentire or very slightly 5-lobed, midpetaline bands; Stamens 5, included, anthers oblong; Pollen globose, pentaporate, finely spiny; Pistil included; Disc ringlike or tubular, prominent, enclosing ovary; Ovary conical, 2-celled, glabrous, locules 2-ovuled; Style 1, filiform; Stigma 2, capitate, sessile globose; Fruit indehiscent, baccate berry, enclosed by persistent calyx, glabrous; Seeds 1-4, glabrous.