Climbers with slender twining stems. Leaves opposite, distant, lacking glands at base of midvein, sessile or petiolate. Inflorescences of axillary umbels. Flowers on bracteate pedicels; sepals free to base; corolla broad-campanulate or rotate; corolla-lobes ovate, spreading, contorted in bud; corona double, the outer a 5-lobed disk at base of gynostemium, the inner of 5 laterally compressed sac-like segments each abruptly narrowed at apex, fused to anthers; anthers with small terminal membranous appendages, pollinia 2 per anther, ovoid, more or less pendent. Follicles slender, fusiform; seeds many, with a silky coma.
1 species, endemic to Australia.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Asclepiadaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 325–332. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
