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Flower-heads solitary or in small clusters at stem apices, subglobose; involucral bracts small, rather lax (in the Flora area), spirally inserted on the peduncle, not surrounding the flower bases; receptacle conical to flat.
Ovary puberulous, scarcely differentiated from the base of the style, with a single pendulous ovule; style (at least in the Flora area) flattened and expanded at the tip to form a conspicuous pollen-presenter.
Small trees or shrubs, sometimes with many stems from a rootstock, sometimes (South Africa) prostrate.
Fruit an ovoid to cylindric nut, glabrous or minutely puberulous.
Leaves often toothed at the apex.
