Muntingia
Muntingia consists only one species. Muntingia is a shrub or tree up to 12 m tall with spreading branches. The leaves are alternate, distichous, oblong or lanceolate, with toothed margin and covered in short hairs. The flowers are small, solitary or in inflorescences of two or three flowers, with five lanceolate sepals, hairy, five obovate white petals, many stamens with yellow anthers, and a smooth ovoid ovary. Fruit, an edible berry, is red at maturity. It is native to the neotropics. Muntingia has been introduced in Southeast Asia and naturalized there and in other tropical parts of the world.