Allmania R.Br. ex Wight

Erect or ascending annual. Leaves alternate, varying from linear to obovate, entire. Flowers ☿, in terminal or (by development of an axillary branch) leaf-opposed heads; heads stalked or subsessile, composed of crowded, 3-7-flowered cymes; flowers solitary in the axil of a bract, subtended by 2 bracteoles which partly act as bracts to branches of a cyme. Tepals free or nearly so, erect or erecto-patent, subequal, ovate-lanceolate, pellucid with green or purple midrib. Stamens 5; filaments at base connate in a short cup; anthers 2-celled (4-locellate); no pseudo-staminodes. Ovary ovate, compressed, narrowed into style; ovule 1, erect on short, broad funicle; style filiform, stigma capitate, faintly 2-lobed. Utricle enclosed by the perianth, ovoid, compressed, thin-walled, circumsciss below the middle. Seed erect, lenticular, at base with a cupular, 2-lobed, thin aril.