Jackes, Betsy (2021) Tetrardisia. Flora of Australia.

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Abstract

[Extract] Shrubs or small trees to 3 m high, often slender. Leaves sessile or subsessile to petiolate; lamina usually elliptic to lanceolate, margin crenate, serrulate or ± entire, abaxial surface glabrous or pubescent, glands dark-coloured, chiefly globular. Inflorescences axillary or terminal racemes or panicles (non-Australian) with 4–20 flowers per inflorescence. Flowers bisexual, 4-merous, pedicels thin, papillate, reddish glands usually associated with all parts; calyx free or fused at base, margins often papillate; corolla white to pink, rotate, shortly fused at base, lobes imbricate in bud overlapping to the right; stamens free or inserted near the base, filaments very short, anthers sagittate, introrse, opening by longitudinal slits; ovary superior, globular to subglobular; style filiform, more than twice length of ovary; stigma punctiform; ovules few embedded in placenta, 1-seriate. Fruit a drupe, globular. Seed 1.

Item ID:	74339
Item Type:	Article (Other)
ISSN:	2207-7820
Copyright Information:	© Copyright Commonwealth of Australia, 2021. All material CC-BY unless otherwise stated.
Date Deposited:	30 May 2022 03:55
FoR Codes:	31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3108 Plant biology > 310899 Plant biology not elsewhere classified @ 100%
SEO Codes:	26 PLANT PRODUCTION AND PLANT PRIMARY PRODUCTS > 2699 Other plant production and plant primary products > 269999 Other plant production and plant primary products not elsewhere classified @ 100%
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