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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Loganiaceae
Logania crassifolia

Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 455 (1810).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Coast logania.

Description:
Shrub prostrate or sometimes up to 30 cm high, dioecious; stems scabridulous; leaves petiolate, blade obovate, broadly obovate or broadly elliptic, 10-30 mm long, 8-30 mm wide, glabrous to minutely papillose, flat, obtuse and mucronate, margins thickened, not scabridulous; petiole c. 3 mm long, usually scabridulous; interfoliar membrane scabridulous.

Flowers unisexual, in compact terminal cymes; calyx 2-3 mm long, ciliolate; corolla white, 3-4 mm long, glabrous outside, tube 2-2.5 mm long, pubescent inside almost to the base, lobes pubescent inside in the lower third.

Capsule 6-8 mm long, 5-6.5 mm wide.

Distribution:  Grows on foredunes.

S.Aust.: EP, YP, SL, KI.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Aug. — Oct.


SA Distribution Map based
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