Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Native
Hypanthium cup-shaped; petals free at the base, fused in the middle into a tube slightly longer on the adaxial side, distally free; stamens 3 long, 2 short, enclosed in the corolla-tube; filaments as long as or longer than the glandless anthers; ovary of 3–5 carpels; style without a membranous cup, inserted between the carpels, stigmatic lobes 3–5, spreading. Mericarps 1–5, wingless or 3-winged, connected at the base to the column by a short triangular point of attachment, leaving a triangular scar after shedding.
About 18 species; 1 in New Zealand and 17 in Australia, of which 1 extends to Micronesia.