Bellardia

Annual hemiparasitic herbs. Leaves opposite, or alternate in upper parts, sessile. Flowers in terminal spike-like racemes, subtended by leaf-like bracts; bracteoles absent. Calyx tubular to broadly cup-shaped, 4-toothed; corolla 2-lipped, the upper lip hood-like, emarginate, the lower longer than the upper, 3-lobed; stamens 4, in pairs of unequal length, held in a U-shaped configuration under the hooded upper corolla-lip, anthers eglandular-hairy, with the 2 locules of each more or less equally awned at the base; stigma clavate to capitate. Capsule loculicidal; seeds numerous, smooth, longitudinally ribbed, or reticulate.