Dielsiothamnus R.E.Fr.

Shrub, small tree or sometimes a scrambling shrub, with both stellate and some simple hairs. Flowers hermaphrodite or rarely only male, solitary (?always) on leafless shoots, axillary, shortly pedicellate; buds globose,enclosed by 2 bracteoles and when very young sessile and enveloped by several calyptrate bracts. Sepals 3, valvate, enclosing the petals in bud. Petals 6, valvate, in 2 whorls of 3, those of the outer whorl slightly larger, those of the inner somewhat narrowed to the base, free. Stamens numerous, linear-obconic; anther-cells lateral; connective prolongations obliquely capitate, apiculate; filaments short. Carpel solitary, cylindric, with numerous biseriate ovules; style absent; stigma bilobed. Fruit indehiscent, oblong-ellipsoidal, sessile or subsessile, many-seeded, not constricted between the seeds, oily. Seeds horizontal, without an aril.