Carphalea

Shrubs, glabrous or pubescent; stems subterete, erect, branched. Leaves paired or in whorls of 3, shortly petiolate, tricuspidate or 3-5-setose; stipules with 3-5 linear or filiform colleter-tipped setae from a short base adnate to petioles. Flowers dimorphic; in terminal corymbose heads. Calyx entire or 4- or 5-lobed, becoming white; tube small, campanulate; limb strongly accrescent, oblique, dilated, reticulated, shallow. Corolla 5-lobed, valvate, white; tube elongated, densely hairy in throat. Stamens 5, arising from throat or corolla, included or exserted; anthers linear-oblong. Disc fleshy. Ovary 2(3)-locular, each locule with a slender basal placenta bearing +/- 4-6 ovules; style filiform; stigma with 2(4) filiform lobes. Fruit apparently always indehiscent, obconic, strongly ribbed, ribs running out into accrescent calyx lobes, 1- or 2-seeded. Seeds narrowly oblong-obconic. x = 11.