Clappertonia

Small shrubs with stems and petioles covered with dense rufous-stellate hairs. Leaves broadly ovate to oblong, 3-7-lobed, margins coarsely serrrate; stipules linear-subulate to lanceolate. Inflorescences of small terminal or axillary cymes. Sepals 4 or 5, oblong, with an apical or subapical gland. Petals 4 or 5, clawed, glandless, pink, purplish or white. Stamens many, up to +/- 12 fertile and slightly longer than the rest; staminodes filamentous or lanceolate-linear and sterile, without anther thecae. Ovary sessile, 4-8-locular, with many ovules in each locule; stigma lobed or denticulate at apex. Capsule ellipsoid or oblong-ovoid, loculicidally 4-8-valved; valves transversely septate within, with many stiff pilose bristles outside. Seeds many, discoid or compressed-obovoid.