Loiseleuria Desv.

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 : 10

9. Loiseleuria Desv. 1

Evergreen dwarf shrubs; leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate. Flowers 5-merous, solitary or in small, terminal umbels. Bracts coriaceous, persistent in fruit. Sepals almost free. Corolla broadly campanulate to cup-shaped, moderately deeply lobed, deciduous. Stamens 5, alternating with corolla-lobes; anthers without appendages, opening by slits along their whole length, not by pores. Fruit a septicidal (sometimes also partly loculicidal) capsule.