Citation: Domin, Beih. Bot. Centralblatt 23, 2:291 (1908).

Derivation: Greek neos, new; skias, umbel; referring to the then new umbelliferous genus.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Small glabrous annual herb; leaves cuneate at the base, gradually narrowed into the petiole, with 2 free stipules.

Umbels simple, contracted to a dense ovate or oblong head; flowers sessile, usually bisexual; ring of calyx inconspicuous; sepals absent; petals white, concave, broad, blunt, slightly imbricate in bud; disk short and flat; styles short, filiform.

Fruit laterally scarcely compressed; carpophore absent; mericarps with glochidia, 5-ribbed, dorsal and intermediate ribs prominent, the latter sometimes almost touching those of the other mericarp and enclosing the deep cavities on either side of the very narrow commissure; vittae absent.

Distribution:  Endemic, 1 species in south-western Australia. (H. A. Froebe (1968) Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 115:28-33.)

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