Small to medium-sized trees; branchlets covered with short, brown hairs; young shoots silvery-hairy. Leaves elliptic, lanceolate to oblanceolate; margins regularly to irregularly toothed, occasionally entire; petiole to c. 5 mm long. Flowers mostly solitary in axils. Perianth segments in 2 whorls. Male flowers with numerous stamens and staminodes. Female flowers with numerous carpels, usually with staminodes. Fruiting receptacle cup-or urn-shaped, enclosing the c. 10–30 silky, awned achenes.
1 species, endemic to south-eastern Australia.
Source:
Foreman, D.B. (1996). Monimiaceae (including Atherospermataceae). In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 25–26. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
