Flora of New Zealand Series

Evergreen shrubs or small trees, not armed, with a ± widespreading habit, often becoming nearly glabrous. Lvs alternate, mostly towards branchlet tips, simple, serrate or entire, coriaceous; stipules small, ± deciduous. Fls in terminal racemes, corymbs or panicles, often somewhat showy, 5-merous, ⚥, shortly pedicellate, medium-sized; pedicels and infl. branches sometimes downy. Hypanthium tubular, closed at apex. Epicalyx 0. Calyx tube adnate to ovary at base, lobed above with sepals deciduous at fruiting. Petals ± spreading, ± ciliate, white to reddish. Stamens 15-20, inserted in mouth of calyx tube. Ovary inferior; carpels 2; styles 2, elongated and fused at base; ovules 2 in each locule. Fr. a pome, subglobose, small, often bluish or purplish black, 1-2-locular; carpel walls leathery; seeds 1-few, rather large.

15 spp., subtropical E. Asia. Naturalised sp. 1 and 1 cultivated hybrid.