Lecanthus - Wedd.

Annual or short lived perennial herbs. Cystoliths elongated. Leaves opposite, petiolate. Stipules intrapetiolar, fused. Inflorescences single in the leaf axils, pedunculate; receptacles surrounded by fused bracts. Male inflorescences usually small, bell or cup-shaped, usually with less than 10 flowers; female inflorescences larger, with many flowers on a flat, disk-shaped receptacle. Fruit an achene ovoid, verrucose.

Worldwide: 1 species in mountainous areas of the Old World Tropics.

Malawi: 1 taxon.