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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Aizoaceae
Trianthema

Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 223 (1753).

Derivation: Greek treis, three; anthemon, flower; the flowers sometimes growing in 3's in the axils of the leaves.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Prostrate or procumbent herbs, papillose or hairy; leaves opposite, petiolate, with dilated scarious bases resembling stipules.

Flowers small, clustered in the leaf axils, each with a membranous bract and 1 or 2 bracteoles at the base; perianth usually fleshy, usually cut about half-way into 5 imbricate lobes; stamens 5-20, inserted near the summit of the perianth tube; ovary superior or semi-inferior, 1-celled, with 1 style and 2 ovules.

Capsule more or less truncate at the summit, circumsciss, coriaceous in the upper half.

Distribution:  At least 20 species, almost cosmopolitan; 12 in Australia.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:
1. Plant villous; stamens c. 20
T. pilosa 1.
1. Plant glabrous but papillose; stamens 5
T. triquetra 2.

Author: Not yet available


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