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Electronic Flora of South Australia family Fact Sheet

Thymelaeaceae

Alternative names: Not Applicable

Description:
Herbs or shrubs with opposite or alternate entire exstipulate leaves.

Flowers bisexual or unisexual, borne in heads spikes or clusters; perianth regular, sepaloid, tubular (the tube termed a receptacular tube by some authors), with 4 lobes; stamens 2 or 8, inserted within the perianth tube; ovary superior, with 1 pendulous anatropous ovule.

Fruit (in these genera) a 1-seeded nut or occasionally drupaceous.

Distribution:  About 50 genera and 500 species in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Mediterranean and the steppes of Asia; 6 genera and about 100 species native to Australia.

Biology: No text

Key to Genera:
1. Stamens 2
PIMELEA 1.
1. Stamens 8
THYMELAEA 2.

Author: Prepared by S. Threlfall


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