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:
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S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, YP, KI.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: from Oct. onwards; fruits start to form in March and are mostly shed by Dec.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Key to Infraspecific taxa:
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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 |
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var. peninsularis 3a. |
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1. Staminodes and glands without apical glands; ovary glabrous; fruit glabrescent, not streaked, drying black |
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var. flindersii 3b. |
Author:
Not yet available
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