Trichocladus Pers.

Trees or shrubs, mostly with conspicuous stellate indumentum. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple, usually entire but ± toothed in one species; stipules small. Flowers in dense terminal or axillary round heads, hermaphrodite or sometimes only ♀. Calyx-tube shallow or campanulate, sometimes adnate to the ovary, lobes (3–)4–5, broadly triangular, valvate. Petals 4–5 or often absent in ♀ flowers, linear-spathulate, much longer than the calyx, often free at base, valvate or slightly imbricate, at first sometimes rolled up or folded in the bud, later sometimes with revolute margins. Stamens as many as the petals; filaments usually shorter than the anthers, turbinate or obpyramidal; anthers opening by valves, mostly beaked; staminodes absent. Ovary inferior to almost superior, 2-locular; ovules pendulous, solitary in each cell. Capsule subglobose, (l–)2-locular, 2-valved, but appearing 4-valved at apex after dehiscence. Seeds ellipsoid or ovoid-oblong, the hilum divided into 2 areas extending from proximal end of the seed on each side; embryo large, the cotyledons well developed.