Droguetia

Slender annual or perennial herbs, occasionally subshrubs, with erect or prostrate stems, +/- scabrid-pubescent, without stinging hairs; plants monoecious or sometimes dioecious. Leaves alternate or opposite, ovate, crenate-serrate, 3-nerved, petiolate, with dot-like cystoliths; stipules lateral, free. Inflorescences broadly campanulate with many crowded flowers, surrounded by a dentate involucre. Male flowers many at margin of inflorescence, subsessile, shortly pubescent; perianth clavate in bud, split along one side, unequally 3-toothed; stamen 1; rudimentary ovary 0. Female flowers 1 or few, in middle of inflorescence, naked, pedicellate; ovary straight, covered with a woolly tomentum; stigma sessile, filiform, shortly papillose on one side, persistent during ripening; staminodes 0. Achene enclosed in persistent involucre, brown, shiny, woolly or smooth, ovoid, compressed, often crowned by persistent stigma. Seed with thin coat. x= 12 (1 report).