Archgeria Hook.f.
Fls 5-merous, in small terminal racemes; bracts of peduncle caducous. Calyx-lobes free almost to base; corolla-tube rather broad, lobes spreading or recurved; staminal filaments very short, inserted at throat. Hypog. disk cupular or of free scales. Ovary deeply lobed; style columnar. inserted in a depression at apex of ovary; stigma ± distinctly 5-lobed.Capsule loculicidally dehiscent, seeds ∞, on basilar or subbasilar placentae. Some 5 spp of Tasmania and 2 endemic to N.Z.
