Trees. Leaves alternate, simple, conspicuously lobed on juveniles and occasionally on mature plants. Conflorescence raceme-like (but almost spicate), axillary, appearing almost terminal, sometimes paniculately branched. Flowers actinomorphic, bisexual, paired, almost sessile; common peduncle very short; common bract developed; floral bracts absent. Tepals valvate, coiled and reflexed at anthesis, dilated at apex, cream, glabrous throughout. Stamens 4; anthers 2-locular, basifixed, sessile, or filaments very short, dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Hypogynous glands 4, patelliform. Ovary sessile; ovules 4; pollen presenter ovoid; stigmatic surface terminal. Fruit a follicle. Seeds flat, winged around margin. n = 14, L.A.S.Johnson & B.G.Briggs, Austral. J. Bot. 11: 24 (1963).
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