Annual or perennial herbs or small shrubs with densely white-woolly branches. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear to semi-terete. Flowers solitary or paired in leaf-axils; perianth small, 5-lobed, immersed in woolly hairs; stamens 5; stigmas 2 or 3. Fruiting perianth developing 3–5 woolly, blunt linear processes from tube in a Y-shaped or vertically compressed configuration; radicular slit prominent; pericarp membranous; seed horizontal.
Endemic Australian genus of 4 species from southern arid or semi-arid areas.
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Chenopodiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 129–199. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
