Perennial shrubs, with opposite terete, slender and scabrulous branches. Leaves linear, upper mostly involute; stipules polymorphic. Inflorescence terminal. Calyx pelviform; tube hairy, limbs reticulately veined, hispid pubescent, unequally 5-6-lobed, accrescent after anthesis. Corolla white, infundibuliform, 5-fid. Stamens inserted near the corolla throat anthers sessile. Style included; stigma bilobed. Fruit of 2 indehiscent cocci, with large orbicular and horizontal 5-6-lobed, membranous, reticulately veined wings.

A genus with one species, distributed from Arabia to Pakistan, through Iran and Afghanistan.

Lower Taxon

• Pseudogaillonia hymenostephana (Daub. & Spach) Lincz.

Related Synonym(s):

• Gaillonia humifusa Jaub. & Spach = Pseudogaillonia hymenostephana (Daub. & Spach) Lincz.
• Gaillonia hymenostephana Jaub. & Spach = Pseudogaillonia hymenostephana (Daub. & Spach) Lincz.
• Neogaillonia hymenostephana (Jaub. & Spach) Puff = Pseudogaillonia hymenostephana (Daub. & Spach) Lincz.