Emelianthe

Aerial, hemiparasitic shrubs 0.5-2 m, with a single haustorial attachment, glabrous, fibrous at fractures. Leaves mostly alternate and also crowded on short shoots, penninerved. Flowers 2-4, umbellate on a short peduncle or clustered on short shoots of generally leafless branches, shortly pedicellate; bract ovate-triangular from a saucer-shaped base. Calyx cupular. Corolla joined +/- halfway, 4-lobed, radially symmetrical, with fluted vents opening at top of tube, not or scarcely explosive, lobes recurving. Stamens arising above base of corolla lobes, remaining weakly attached to style tip by a conspicuous bifid connective appendage; anthers 4-thecous.