Flora of New Zealand Series

Fls small, panicled. Calyx-tube or receptacle turbinate, adnate to ovary; lobes 5-6, deciduous. Petals 5-6, inserted under margin of epig. disk, valvate. Stamens 5-6 alt. with petals; filaments short. Ovary half-inferior, 3-5-celled; stigma capitate; ovules ∞. Fr. globose, ind.; seeds ∞, small, axile, pend. Shrubs or small trees with alt., exstipulate lvs. Genus of a few spp. in New Guinea and one endemic to N.Z.