Creeping, dioecious perennial herbs, rooting at nodes. Leaves cauline, alternate, entire. Capitula unisexual, campanulate to hemispherical, terminal, solitary, more or less sessile; involucral bracts 3- or 4-seriate, unequal, scarious, spreading at apex; receptacle more or less flat, naked. Female florets fertile, filiform, 2–4-lobed; bisexual florets functionally male, tubular, 4- or 5-lobed; anthers saggitate at base; style bilobed, with linear glabrous branches. Cypselas glabrous; those of female florets terete; those of male florets obconical; pappus of free barbellate bristles.
1 species, from south-eastern mainland Australia.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Asteraceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 652–666. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
