Trichocladus

• Branches and leaves are often covered in dense, velvet-like, stellate hairs.
• Leaves are simple, alternate or opposite, and paler beneath, with inconspicuous stipules.
• Flowers are borne in dense, spherical heads, with floral parts in 4s or 5s. Sepals are fused together, forming a tube. Petals are long and narrow. Trichocladus flowers closely resemble those of the genus Hamamelis and are hermaphroditic or sexually separate, with male and female parts being borne on different flowers, either on the same plant of different plants.
• Fruits consist of a two-valved capsule which appears to be 4-valved at its apex.

  Species

• Trichocladus crinitus, Pers.
• Trichocladus dentatus, Hutch.
• Trichocladus ellipticus, Eckl. & Zeyh.
• Trichocladus goetzei, Engl.
• Trichocladus grandiflorus, Oliv.

  Distribution

Etymology