Flora of New Zealand Series

Fls in terminal subumbellate panicles; calyx-tube or receptacle short, adnate to base of ovary, lobes 5, imbricate, deciduous; petals 5, inserted below 5-lobed disk, imbricate; stamens 5, alt. with disk lobes, filaments slender. Ovary superior, conical, 5-lobed, 5-celled; style twisted, 5-grooved; ovules 2 per cell, collateral. Capsule coriac., broadly ovoid, 5-celled, loculicidally dehiscent; seeds large. Genus monotypic, endemic. Tree with alt. to opp. or whorled, exstipulate, glab. lvs; teeth gland-tipped.