Hillia

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.

• Family

  Rubiaceae

• Scientific Name

  Hillia

• Description

  Description - Epiphytic shrubs, scandent, with long pendulous branches. Leaves opposite, thick-coriaceous, entire, petiolate; stipules intrapetiolar, membranaceous, deciduous. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, solitary, subsessile, terminal. Calyx with 2-9 foliaceous or truncate lobes; corolla hypocrateriform, the tube elongate, narrow, with 3-7 expanded lobes; stamens 4-7; ovary inferior, of two carpels, each carpel with numerous ovules, the style filiform. Fruit an elongate capsule, narrow, oblong or cylindrical, septicidal; seeds numerous, with an appendage of hairs on the apical portion. A neotropical genus of 24 species.