Leucosphaera

Small silvery shrublet. Leaves mostly opposite, entire. Inflorescences capitate, the ultimate divisions of 1 or 2 bisexual fertile flowers and 1 or 2 sterile flowers formed of 2-4 narrow, white, plumose-hairy bracteoliform processes. Tepals 5, obscurely 3-nerved, lanceolate-linear, with broad, membranous margins on lower half, long-acuminate, with minutely scabrid hairs; perianth of sterile flowers not spiny. Stamens 5; filaments abruptly expanded and connate into a cup below; pseudostaminodes 0; anthers 2-thecous. Ovary pyriform, densely pilose above; ovule solitary; style slender; stigma capitate. Capsule not compressed, thin-walled, apex firm, pilose, flat, hyaline wall glabrous and ruptured by developing seed, or indehiscent. Seed brown, shining, +/- reticulate.