Ortegia L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 153

20. Ortegia L. 1

Small herb with opposite leaves. Flowers small, shortly pedicellate in opposite, cymose clusters which are arranged in a panicle. Sepals 5, keeled, margins scarious; petals absent; stamens 3; style 1; stigma 3-toothed or -lobed. Capsule dehiscing with 3 valves. Seeds numerous, minute, ovoid, acute.