Citation: Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 7:461 ( 1821).

Derivation: After P. F. Keraudren, 1769-1851, a French naturalist.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Greyfelt-bush.

Description:
Woody evergreen shrubs, densely stellate-hairy on the leaves and young branches; leaves with caducous brownish stipules, with pinnate venation, shortly petiolate.

Flowers bisexual, in several-flowered axillary or terminal cymes; bracts lanceolate, thin, early caducous; epicalyx 0; calyx of 5 segments, scarious, coloured, fused for about one-third of its length; petals 0; stamens 5, on filaments many times longer than the anthers, extrorse, alternating with the sepals; staminodes 5, resembling the filaments of the fertile stamens; ovary sessile, 3-5-celled, stellate-hairy, with 1 ovule in each cell; styles adhering above the base, capitate.

Fruit stellate-hairy, lobed, opening loculicidally, with several ovules usually aborting.

	Hannafordia bissellii twig, calyx, petal, stamens and staminodes, ovary, ovary in section and fruit.
Image source: fig 443a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 493.

Distribution:  7 species in Australia, 1 in Madagascar.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: recorded in S.Aust. in March and July, but probably in all months.

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

Biology: No text

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