Undershrubs, stellate-hairy. Leaves alternate, simple, entire. Flowers 5-merous, in terminal and apparently axillary umbels subtended by leafy or petaloid bracts. Sepals small, minute or absent. Petals free, induplicate-valvate in bud, elliptic, glabrous adaxially, stellate or lepidote abaxially. Stamens 10 (–25 in W.A.), free, slightly shorter than petals, glabrous (rarely stellate); filaments filiform; anthers broadly oblong-elliptic, basifixed, with or without a small terminal gland. Disc minute. Carpels 1–5, stellate or glabrous, contiguous on adaxial margin in lower half; style arising from middle of adaxial margin of carpel; stigma lobed, fleshy, recurved. Cocci beaked or blunt. Seed reniform; testa smooth; hilum short and linear; raphe minute.
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