Leaves mostly alternate, lamina with clear or coloured dots or streaks.
Flowers in panicles, corymbs or racemes; 5-merous. Calyx deeply lobed. Corolla 5-lobed. Stamens free, filaments short.
Fruit a drupe, 1-seeded.
Formerly in Myrsinaceae.
| Key to the species | |
1 | Inflorescences few-flowered short axillary racemes; fruit black when mature; leaves with margins entire to ± crenate; sepals <1 mm long | Ardisia bakeri |
| Inflorescences many-flowered, umbellate on peduncle-like branches; fruit red; leaves with margins conspicuously crenate and crisped; sepals 1–2 mm long | Ardisia crenata |