Alternative names: Not Applicable

Description:
Aerial stem-parasitic shrubs; leaves mostly opposite, entire.

Flowers bisexual; calyx reduced to a lobed or truncate limb at the apex of the ovary, without vascular bundles; corolla free or fused, regular or slightly zygomorphic, 4-6-merous, valvate; stamens as many as and opposite the petals, epipetalous, anthers 2- or 4-locular, mostly basifixed, immobile, introrse and continuous with the filament but sometimes dorsifixed and usually versatile, opening by longitudinal slits; pollen trilobate; ovary inferior, without differentiated loculi or ovules.

Fruit berry-like; seed single, surrounded by a copious viscous layer.

Biology: No text

Key to Genera:

1. Petals free
2. Anthers basifixed, immobile, introrse; inflorescence axillary
3. Inflorescence not subtended by enlarged bracts more than 20 mm long	AMYEMA 1.
3. Inflorescence subtended by enlarged bracts more than 20 mm long which enclose the buds prior to anthesis	DIPLATIA 2.
2. Anthers dorsifixed, versatile; inflorescence terminal	MUELLERINA 3.
1. Petals united into a curved tube, more deeply divided on the concave side	LYSIANA 4.

Author: Prepared by B. A. Barlow