Dracophyllum

Glabrous shrubs or small trees; branchlets often with prominent annular scars from fallen leaves. Leaves completely sheathing stems at base, usually concolorous, parallel-veined. Flowers bisexual, glabrous, solitary, or in racemes, spikes or panicles; individual flowers subtended by 1–several persistent or caducous bracts and bracteoles; pedicels shorter than to longer than calyx; calyx 5-lobed, persistent, shorter to longer than corolla tube; corolla ovoid, ellipsoid or conical, 5-lobed, sometimes closed at apex and not separating into lobes but splitting transversely near the base, the upper part (operculum) shed, the lower cup-like part persisting, white, yellowish to pink or dark red; stamens 5, free from corolla; filaments inserted at base of ovary, often persistent until fruiting; nectary of 5 indistinct scales, rarely united into a ring; ovary 5-locular, with many ovules per locule, style filiform, inserted in a depression at ovary apex. Fruit a loculicidal, 5-valved capsule; seeds numerous, small with reticulate testa.