Chamaedaphne Moench

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 12

17. Chamaedaphne Moench 1

( Cassandra D. Don )

Evergreen shrubs; leaves alternate, very shortly petiolate. Flowers 5-merous, solitary in the axils of leaf-like bracts, forming terminal, secund racemes; bracteoles 2, inserted immediately below the calyx and overlapping it. Sepals connate at base. Corolla cylindrical, lobed for of its length. Stamens 10; anthers without appendages but with the lobes prolonged apically into a tube with terminal pore. Fruit a pendent, loculicidal capsule.