Leaves ovate, acuminate, entire or with a few large distant teeth.
Flowers sessile, in pedunculate bracteate fascicles of 3-5, arranged in short trichotomous cymes. Capsule chartaceous, flat, splitting into two 1-seeded cells, cotyledons flat, radicle inferior, albumen 0. Nyctanthes extracted from the GRIN database References Agardh, J. 1858. Airy Shaw, H. K. 1952. Note on the taxonomic position of Nyctanthes L. and Dimetra Kerr.