Description: Perennial shrubs or subshrubs, lacking tubercle-based hairs but often with glandular hairs.
Leaves alternate, entire or toothed.
Inflorescence terminal, flowers solitary or in cymes, bracts few or lacking. Corolla actinomorphic, rotate, blue or white; tube very short. Anthers exserted, narrow-ovoid with a long, rarely short, terminal appendage, cohering into a tube and borne on short, free filaments. Ovary conical, 2–4-locular with 1 ovule per loculus; style terminal, simple; stigma minute.
Fruit a leathery drupe with 1 or 2 pyrenes.
Distribution and occurrence: World: c. 18 species, endemic Australia. Australia: all mainland States.
Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept:
| | Key to the species | |
| 1 | Leaves with entire margins | Halgania andromedifolia |
| Leaves with toothed margins | 2 |
| 2 | Glandular hairs present, at least on inflorescence and young shoots | Halgania cyanea |
| Glandular hairs absent
Back to 1 | Halgania brachyrhyncha |
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