Decumbent to erect subshrubs with woolly branchlets. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear to narrowly obovate, covered with silky or woolly hairs. Flowers bisexual, sessile, 2-many in leaf axils and fused together at their bases; perianth immersed in woolly hairs, cup-shaped, 5-lobed; stamens 5, stigmas 2. Fruiting perianth woody, the aggregated fruit consisting of 2–16 parts, falling as a whole, spines present or absent; pericarp crustaceous above, membranous below; seed horizontal; testa membranous to thinly crustaceous.
Endemic Australian genus of 4 species.
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.
