Description: Prostrate perennial herbs, ± rooting at the nodes, glabrous to hirsute.
Leaves opposite, petiolate; stipules sheathing.
Flowers solitary, terminal, bisexual, 4 or 5 merous. Calyx well-developed, 2–4-lobed, persistent in fruit. Corolla tubular to funnel-shaped. Stamens fused to base of corolla tube; filaments elongating to much longer than corolla, anthers long-exserted. Ovary 2-locular, each with 1 ovule; stigmas 2, ± sessile, filiform.
Fruit a dryish, leathery drupe, crowned with persistent calyx lobes; pyrenes 1-seeded.
Distribution and occurrence: World: 6 species, Australia, New Zealand, South America. Australia: 1 species (endemic).
Text by T. A. James
Taxon concept:
| One species in NSW: Leptostigma reptans |
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