Rhagodia R.Br.

Dioecious shrubs, mealy at least when young with globular hairs which may collapse to form a scurfy or continuous silvery sheen. Leaves opposite or alternate, simple, entire or obtusely lobed at base. Flowers clustered, forming panicles or spike-like thyrses; bracts small or absent. Perianth globular; tepals 5, shortly united, often spreading and enlarged in fruit. Male flowers: stamens 5, usually united at base into a disc that is puberulous or woolly within, rarely glabrous; pistillode minute. Female flower: if terminal with staminodes and a woolly disc; if lateral with or without small glabrous staminodes; ovary glabrous; stigmas 2, sessile. Fruit a depressed-globular berry c. 3 mm diam.; pericarp succulent, viscous on drying. Seed horizontal, depressed-globular to lenticular; testa crustaceous, black, smooth to reticulate; embryo circular; perisperm copious, central.