Kanahia

Perennial herbs with woody rootstock, branched from base, rarely above. Leaves subsessile, slender, with minute colleters in leaf axils. Flowers in pseudoumbels lateral at nodes, with peduncles racemosely scattered along upper part of branches. Sepals with row of scales within base. Corolla lobed to halfway or more, greenish; lobes spreading or erect, slightly overlapping to left in bud, with upper surface bordered with woolly hairs and pubescent within. Corona of 5 lobes, arising from staminal column; lobes +/- complicate or fissured on inner surface, and projected into 2 short horns directed over staminal column. Staminal column arising from base of corolla. Anthers 2-locular, with membranous appendages deflexed on column, bluntly spurred at base. Pollinia terete, attached horizontally to corpuscle by caudicles. Follicles +/- ellipsoid, rounded and smooth on outer side, grooved on inner side. Seeds convex on one side, concave on other, tapering to apex, with tuft of hairs.