Diplolophium Turcz.

Perennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves variously pinnate, commonly sessile on the sheaths. Umbels compound, pedunculate, few–numerous; involucre and involucel present, very conspicuous. Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx-teeth obsolete or minute. Petals small, white or creamy, incised above with a long inflexed point, dorsally pubescent Fruit oblong-elliptic, dorsally compressed wih a broad commissure, densely pilose; primary ribs prominent, all equal; valleculae 1-vittate, the commissure 2–4-vittate; stylopodia subconical, flat on the commissural face, crenate-margined at the base; carpophore finally bifid or remaining entire. Endosperm depressed-subreniform, grooved beneath the valleculae.