Munronia Wight

Unbranched or sparsely branched shrublets, sometimes suckering with apparently short-lived shoots. Indumentum a mixture of simple and bifid or stellate hairs. Leaves simple to imparipinnate, often crenate to serrate. Flowers hermaphrodite, solitary or in few-flowered thyrses, pseudopedicellate, usually white. Calyx 5-lobed to near base, lobes somewhat foliaceous. Petals 5, imbricate, adnate to staminal tube basally, rarely becoming free later. Staminal tube narrowly cylindrical or weakly obconical, the margin with 10 entire or bilobed appendages or, rarely, with 10 reflexed filiform appendages recurved some distance below margin; anthers 10, pubescent, inserted on tube rim, alternating with appendages, connective often produced apically forming an appendage, which is rarely filiform. Disk absent or tubular, free or united with base of staminal tube. Ovary 5-locular, each locule with two superposed ovules; stylehead capitate, sometimes with 5 stigmatic lobes. Fruit a 5-valved loculicidal capsule, each locule with 1 or 2 seeds. Seeds plano-convex with a bony tegmen with an outgrowth enveloping a thick sarcotesta (Cheek); embryo embedded in thin endosperm.