Brachylaena R.Br.

Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate or subsessile; blade pinnately veined, entire or toothed, subcoriaceous. Capitula unisexual, disciform, dioecious, in terminal or axillary racemoid or paniculoid thyrses, often ultimately ± clustered or in glomerules; phyllaries in 3 or more series, imbricate, the inner progressively longer than the outer; receptacle ± flat, naked. Florets with ± 2-lipped unequally 5-lobed corollas, unisexual. Male florets with tubular corolla tube and long lobes; anthers exserted, tailed; style undivided or shortly bifid; ovary abortive, with reduced pappus. Female florets with narrower corolla tube, narrow lobes and anthers reduced to free staminodes or absent; style exserted, arms ± oblong-linear, flat. Achenes ± pubescent; pappus of numerous barbellate bristles.