It consists of 4 small nuts which often remain locked inside the calyx tube. Flowers with the calyx tube are minute, approximately between . The ovoid fruits are up to long suspended from the shrunken calyx tube. The fruit is pear-shaped, suspended from the shrunken calyx tube. Henna flowers have four sepals and a calyx tube, with spread lobes. The calyx tube is five-toothed with ten stamens. The hypanthium are well-developed, resembling calyx tube tepals and the stamens perigynous. "Tapiscia" and "Huertea" have a calyx tube and compound, rather than simple leaves.