Breonadia

Trees or shrubs; terminal vegetative buds conical. Leaves usually in whorls of 4, petiolate, elongate, lanceolate; stipules narrowly triangular, deciduous. Flowers in pedunculate, dense, spherical, heads, with 2 connate bracts on each peduncle; each flower subtended by a linear-spatulate bract. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes oblong; limb-tube developed, densely hairy. Corolla 5-lobed, hairy; pinkish green or white or yellowish brown, lobes elliptic, concave, imbricate; tube cylindric, 5-ribbed, glandular within. Stamens 5, arising in throat of corolla, included; filaments linear, shorter than anthers; anthers basifixed, oblong, sagittate, apiculate. Ovary 2-locular, with several pendulous ovules in each locule; placenta attached to upper third of septum; style terete, long-exserted; pollen presenter club-shaped. Fruit septicidal capsules, clustered in hard, brown, spherical heads. Seeds ovoid or obovoid, compressed, not winged.