Citation: Planchon, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 8:30 (1861).

Derivation: Greek kalyx, calyx; Latin peplus, a robe of state; alluding to the involucre resembling a collective calyx.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Shrubs or undershrubs with opposite virgate branches usually leafless at the time of flowering; leaves opposite rarely whorled, very deciduous; stipules minute or obsolete.

Flower-heads small, axillary or terminal, resembling single flowers as the bracts form an involucre resembling a collective calyx; involucre campanulate or open, 4-lobed, with or without small glands between the lobes; male flowers 4 or more within the involucre, each subtended by a bract, the outer 1 or 2 bracts much enlarged and enclosing the cluster; each flower on a peduncle articulated to the single short filament, with a single anther which 2 parallel cells dehiscing longitudinally; no sepals nor petals; female flower in the centre of the head, solitary, pedunculate, with a 4- or 6-lobed calyx; ovary sessile, 3-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell; styles 3 or 1, 3-cleft, branches entire or 2-fid.

Capsule breaking into 3 2-seeded fruitlets.

Distribution:  4 species probably limited to Western Australia.

Biology: No text

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