Cressa L.

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 : 77

2. Cressa L. 1

Annual or perennial herbs, often somewhat woody at the base. Leaves sessile, simple, entire. Flowers in short, terminal, congested racemes; pedicels with 2 small bracteoles. Corolla divided to about halfway into 5 patent, pubescent lobes. Stamens inserted at about the middle of the corolla-tube, glabrous, exserted. Ovary 2-locular; styles 2, exserted; stigmas capitate. Capsule usually 1-seeded. Pollen grains tricolpate; exine not spinose.