Citation: Sonder, in Lehm., Pl. Preiss. 1:304 (1845).

Derivation: Greek brachys, short; loma, edge, fringe; alluding to the hairs or scales in the throat of the corolla tube.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Erect compact or more diffuse shrubs; young branches yellow-brown to red-brown, scabrous to hirsute; leaves erect to suberect, flat to slightly concave or convex, with conspicuous venation of 3 parallel central veins and laterals radiating to the margins on the lower surface, petiolate.

Flowers solitary, axillary, on short peduncles; bracts leaf-like, caducous or small and persistent below the 2 bracteoles; bracts, bracteoles and sepals usually glabrous except for ciliolate margins; corolla tube usually longer than the calyx, usually externally glabrous, with a few reflexed hairs at the throat or 5 tufts of long hairs reflexed into the tube; lobes imbricate in bud, spreading in the flower, inner surface papillose; filaments short, inserted near the top of the corolla tube; anthers visible in the throat, not exserted; ovary 4- or 5-celled, with 1 ovule per cell; style cylindrical, stigma lobed; nectary annular, with lobed or toothed upper margin.

Distribution:  7 species, endemic to Australia.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:

1. Leaf apex broadly acute to obtuse, with a small callus; corolla tube slender, cylindrical	B. daphnoides 2.
1. Leaf apex acute, aristate with the tip 0.4-1.3 mm long; corolla tube broadly campanulate to bulbous
2. Peduncles 0.5-1 mm, with a single leaf-like deciduous bract below the bracteoles; corolla lobes ovate-triangular, acute	B. ciliatum 1.
2. Peduncles 1.2-2 mm, with 4-6 or more persistent bracts below the bracteoles; corolla lobes broadly ovate, obtuse	B. ericoides 3.

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