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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Solanaceae
Grammosolen

Citation: Haegi, Telopea 2:178 (1981).

Derivation: Greek grammk, a line or stroke of a pen; sblkn, a pipe; alluding to the striated corolla tube.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Shrubs densely tomentose with branched hairs and inconspicuous glandular hairs, with corky bark at the stem base; leaves alternate, simple, entire, petiolate to subsessile.

Flowers borne in cymose clusters aggregated into leafy interrupted spikes, bisexual; calyx cup-shaped, 5-lobed, persistent; corolla regular or slightly zygomorphic, funnel-shaped, with a striated throat and 5 (rarely 4 or 6) narrow acute lobes; corolla lobes induplicate with inflexed margins in bud; stamens 5, usually 2 long and 3 short, rarely 3 long and 2 short, included, inserted near the base of the corolla; anthers not cohering, 1-celled, horseshoe-shaped, dehiscing by a single long curved slit; ovary 2-celled.

Fruit a smooth capsule dehiscing septifragally in 4 valves, largely enclosed by a scarcely enlarged calyx and often concealed by the indumentum of the calyx and axis; fruiting pedicel erect; seeds subreniform, not flattened; testa reticulate.

Distribution:  A genus of 2 species, endemic in S.Aust.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:
1. Leaves subsessile or with a petiole less than 2 mm (rarely 3 mm) long, loosely appressed and often overlapping, obscuring the axis; calyx lobes more than 1 mm long
G. dixonii 1.
1. Leaves with the petiole 2-4 mm long, patent, well-spaced and not obscuring the axis; calyx lobes less than 1 mm long
G. truncatus 2.

Author: Prepared by L. Haegi


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