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Family: Olacaceae
Olax obcordata

Citation: A.S. George, Fl. Aust. 22:220 (1984).

Synonymy: O. benthamiana sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 276 (1948), non Miq.

Common name: None

Description:
Low glaucous glabrous shrub usually less than 60 cm high, with thick sessile obovate-cuneate or obcordate keeled leaves 5-10 mm long.

Flowers solitary, axillary, 6-7 mm long, shortly pedicellate; calyx shortly 5-toothed, much shorter than the 5 (sometimes 6) petals, which are united in the lower part by the flat adnate portion of the filaments; stamens 3, alternate with the petals; staminodes 3, opposite the petals, linear, bifid, bearded in the lower part; style 1; stigma 3-lobed; drupe globular, c. 10 mm diam.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, KI.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Sept. — Oct.


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