Citation: Smith, Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 260 (1794).

Derivation: After Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel, 1766-1833, German botanist and physician.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Glabrous slender usually erect shrubs; leaves persistent for several years but falling from the older parts of the stem leaving this smooth and without leaf scars, imbricate, completely sheathing the stem at the base, becoming wider and stem-clasping then spreading above.

Flowers erect, often solitary, terminal or terminating short branches in the axils of the uppermost leaves, sometimes crowded in leafy heads; bracts numerous, crowded, smaller than the foliage leaves and grading to the 5 somewhat rigid sepals; corolla tube short or with the petals free or cohering shortly above the base to form petal claws, lobes narrow, often spreading widely; stamens free from the corolla, the filaments flat, inserted at the base of the ovary, often adnate along most of the anther length, anthers bilocular, dehiscing by a single longitudinal slit above the common septum, not exserted; ovary glabrous or puberulent, 5-celled, with several ovules in each cell, placentation axile; style filiform, inserted into a narrow tubular depression of the ovary; nectary absent.

Fruit a woody loculicidal capsule.

Distribution:  4 species, all Australian.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available