Family: Apocynaceae
Rhyncharrhena
Citation:
F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 1:128 (1859).
Derivation: Greek rhynchos, a beak; arrhen, male; alluding to the inner coronal appendages.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Slender twining shrubs; leaves linear, distant, petiolate or sessile, margins usually revolute.
Flowers axillary, umbellate; corolla broadly campanulate or rotate; corona double, the outer a 5-lobed disk at the base of the gynostegium, the inner of 5 laterally compressed segments, adnate to the anthers; anthers with small terminal membranous appendages; pollen masses ovoid, subpendulous or horizontal; pedicels bracteate.
Follicles slender, fusiform; seeds comose.
Distribution:
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1 species endemic to Australia. (K. L. Wilson (1980) Telopea 1:35-39).
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Biology:
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Author:
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