Citation: Fenzl, in Endl., Enum. Pl. Hügel 20 (1837).

Derivation: Greek trymalia, an aperture; alluding to the 3 slits at the summit of the fruit when it opens.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Shrubs hoary on the branches, glabrous or stellate-tomentose in parts; leaves alternate, petiolate, flat, pinnately nerved, green above, pale below.

flowers small, pedicellate in small raceme-like cymes, bisexual, stellate-tomentose; buds globular; bracts caducous; sepals 5, persistent; petals hood-shaped, enclosing the anthers; stamens 5, anthers on short filaments; floral tube hollow, not extended upwards beyond the adnate part of the ovary; ovary almost wholly inferior, usually 3-celled, the summit stellate-tomentose; disk annular, 5-lobed; style 3-branched, the branches clavate.

Capsule small, with a thin exocarp protruding and convex above the floral tube so that the whole fruit is pyriform, the protruding summit opening in 3 deltoid valves, the endocarp separating into 3 coriaceous 1-seeded fruitlets, mature fruits and seeds not found in S.Aust. but probably as for Pomaderris.

Distribution:  About 12 species in Australia.

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: A single specimen from SL (Anstey Hill) resembles Trymalium in the flowers but has glabrous ovaries and leaves and the leaves are broad and c. 3.5-4 cm long. It has been tentatively placed in Trymalium but may be introduced.

Author: Prepared by J.P. Jessop