Flora of New Zealand Series

Plants monoec. to dioec., occ. polygamous. Fls in cymose panicles with outer tepals obsolete, inner tepals 4-(5), valvate, deciduous; stamens 4, opp. tepals, filaments elongate. Ovary 1-loculed, 1-ovuled; style thick; stigma large, capitate. Fr. viscid. Hemiparasitic shrub, the only known sp. endemic.