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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Meliaceae
Owenia

Citation: F. Muell., Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 9:303 (1857).

Derivation: After Professor Richard Owen, 1804-1892, English zoologist.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Evergreen trees; leaves pinnate; the petiole slightly expanded at the base; leaflets mostly alternate, entire, subsessile; bracts small, sometimes persistent.

Panicles linear to broadly lanceolate in outline and relatively dense; sepals 5, obtuse, very shortly fused, short, imbricate; petals 5, free, obovate to oblanceolate, erect; filaments forming a 10-toothed tube; anthers 10, inserted in the mouth of the staminal tube; disk annular; ovary 3-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell; stigma conical, surmounting a glandular ring.

Distribution:  6 species, endemic to Australia.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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