Glaucous verrucose undershrubs. Leaves small, scattered and crowded, rigid, simple, entire. Flowers 1 or more in terminal clusters often surrounded by petaloid bracts. Sepals 5, free, imbricate, larger than petals and resembling bracts. Petals imbricate, similar to sepals but thicker. Stamens 10, free, shorter than petals, glabrous; anthers versatile, apically retuse. Disc absent. Carpels 5, free, with no sterile apex; style terete, glabrous, inserted just below apex of carpels; stigma peltate. Seed reniform, thick, c. 5 mm long; sclerotesta slightly verrucose; hilum circular; raphe large filling the concave adaxial margin with the chalaza on lower edge of concavity.
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