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Family: Pittosporaceae
Cheiranthera volubilis

Citation: Benth., Fl. Aust. 1:128 (1863).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Twining finger-flower.

Description:
Slender twiner, glabrous; leaves linear, scattered, sometimes crowded together at the base of the inflorescence.

5-17 x 0.5-1 mm, nearly terete, concave on the upper surface, glabrous, flowers solitary; pedicels 15-45 mm long, more or less twining; sepals lanceolate, 4.5-5 mm long, glabrous; petals obovate, 12-15 mm long, dark-blue on the inside, pale on the outside; ovary glabrous, c. 4 mm long.

capsule not known.

Published illustration: Munir & J. Morley (1985) J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 7:209.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: KI.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Oct. — March.


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