Dais

Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite or irregularly spaced, expanded. Flowers pink, in dense, pedunculate heads, subtended by an involucre of 2-6 broad bracts. Calyx hairy, 5-lobed; tube cylindric, often slightly curved; lobes lanceolate, much shorter than tube. Petals 0. Stamens 10, inserted in calyx tube, of different lengths; anthers bright yellow, oblong, shorter than filaments. Disc fleshy, cupular, unequal-sided. Ovary sessile, 1-locular, with solitary ovule, with long hairs on upper part; style somewhat exserted; stigma green, globose, with glandular hairs. Fruit dry, enclosed in base of calyx tube. Seeds black, ovoid, with crustaceous, pustulate testa. x = 9 (1 report).