Dischistocalyx

Subshrubs, geniculate and +/-ascending, with multicellular hairs, especially on young parts and inflorescence. Leaves petiolate, ovate-elliptic or lanceolate, acutely cuneate at base, acuminate, entire or faintly crenulate; with many short, rod-like cystoliths on both surfaces. Inflorescences terminal, dense, few-flowered spikes to +/-capitate; bracts early deciduous. Flowers sessile with minute subulate bracteoles at base of calyx. Calyx : lobes unequal: anterior 2 free to base, linear-narrowly elliptic, posterior 3 fused halfway or further. Corolla large to medium-sized; lower +/- 1/4 of tube narrowly cylindric, upper portion campanulate-funnelshaped; lobes 5, rounded, spreading. Stamens 4, arising in narrow, cylindric portion of corolla tube, didynamous; filaments and connectives of anthers finely pubescent; shorter stamens arising above longer ones; anthers all similar, not spurred. Ovary glabrous; ovules many; style +/-glabrous; stigma with 1 branch well-developed, recurved, other branch rudimentary. Capsule linear to narrowly obovate, glabrous, containing +/-10 seeds in each locule. Seeds with a ring of hygroscopic hairs.