Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 353 (1810).

Derivation: Greek leptos, slender; meros, a part; alluding to the slender branchlets.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Currant-bushes.

Description:
Glabrous shrubs; branches often ending in spines; leaves alternate, caducous, to 3.5 mm long.

Flowers minute, each subtended by a caducous bract, subsessile, bisexual, in axillary racemes; perianth of 5 segments, thick, fleshy, with incurred tips; anthers at the base of each segment, mostly 4-lobed; disk bluntly lobed; ovary almost cylindrical, inferior, fleshy; style short; stigma minutely 5-lobed.

Fruit a drupe or dry, crowned by the persistent perianth-segments.

Distribution:  17 species, all Australian.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:

1. Perianth dark when dry; branches smooth or wrinkled, more or less spreading; fruits fleshy	L. aphylla 1.
1. Perianth whitish when dry; branches regularly striate, more or less erect; fruits dry	L. preissiana 2.

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