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Family: Lauraceae
Cassytha peninsularis

Citation: J. Weber, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 3:232 (1981).

Synonymy: Cassytha peninsularis, Cassytha pubescens

Common name: (Streaked) dodder-laurel.

Description:
Leaves ovate, c. 2 x 1 mm, subacute, more or less sprinkled with hairs, often with a central gland; bract ovate, cordate, c. 1.5 x c. 1.2 mm, subacute, light-brown, turning brown; bracteoles triangular-ovate, c. 0.9 x c. 0.8 mm, pubescent, ciliate, green to light-brown, turning brown.

Flowers yellow, 1.7-2.5 x 1.1-2.3 mm; sepals triangular, pubescent to only sprinkled with a few hairs, ciliate, light-brown; petals ovate, c. 2 x c. 1.5 mm, glabrous or occasionally only sprinkled with a few hairs outside, yellow, in fruit dark-brown; staminodes cordate to pyramidal, laterally compressed, c. 1 x c. 0.7 mm, conspicuously white-glandular-crested; glands obovoid, c. 0.8 x c. 0.5 mm, conspicuously white-glandular-tipped; ovary with a ring of hairs medially.

Fruit globular, c. 7 x c. 6.5 mm, when dry obovoid and c. 7 x c. 5.5 mm, pubescent, broadly streaked alternately with dull-green and dull-red-brown hairs; glandular rim much more conspicuous in dried specimens, drying grey-brown; stone c. 5.5 x c. 4.5 mm, light-brown, drying brown.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, YP, KI.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: from Oct. onwards; fruits start to form in March and are mostly shed by Dec.


SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Key to Infraspecific taxa:
1. Staminodes and glands with a white apical gland; ovary with a ring of hairs medially; fruit streaked with alternate bands of white and red hairs, drying green and brown
var. peninsularis 3a.
1. Staminodes and glands without apical glands; ovary glabrous; fruit glabrescent, not streaked, drying black
var. flindersii 3b.

Author: Not yet available


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