Family: Rutaceae
Geijera
Citation:
Schott, Rutaceae 7:t. 4 (1834).
Derivation: After J. D. Geijer, a Swedish botanist, author of 'Diktamnographia', 1686, and other works.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Shrubs or trees; branchlets glabrous to sparsely pubescent with simple hairs; leaves alternate, lacking stipules, petiolate, simple, glabrescent.
Inflorescence a many-branched dichasial cyme, terminal or in upper axils; bracts small; flowers bisexual; calyx lobes 5, minute; petals 5, free, spreading, white; disk shallowly 5- rarely 4-lobed; stamens 5 (rarely 4); filaments inserted below the disk, short, glabrous; anthers versatile, introrsely and longitudinally dehiscent; gynoecium 5- rarely 4-carpellate; carpels more or less united, partly immersed in a disk; ovules 2 per carpel; style short, inserted at the apex of the carpels; stigma capitate, 5- rarely 4-lobed.
Fruit of 1-4 ovoid cocci, dehiscing apically; exocarp cartilaginous; endocarp more or less attached to the coccus after dehiscence; seed 1 per coccus, retained in the coccus after dehiscence; testa consisting of a shiny pellicle overlaying a thick spongy layer and an inner bony layer.
Distribution:
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A genus of 5 species (Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia and Loyalty Island); all species occur in Australia, 4 endemic; 2 species in S.Aust.
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Biology:
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