Family: Loganiaceae
Logania insularis
Citation:
J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 50:285 (23 Dec. 1926); Fl. S. Aust. 457 (Dec. 1926).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Island logania.
Description:
Small shrub to 30 cm high, dioecious; stems minutely pubescent, leaves shortly petiolate or sessile, blade elliptic to obovate, 3-8 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, papillose and with scattered hairs, margins recurved; petiole up to 2.5 mm long, minutely pubescent; interfoliar membrane minutely pubescent.
Flowers unisexual, in short few-flowered cymes; calyx c. 1 mm long, ciliolate, corolla cream to pale-yellow, c. 2 mm long, tube internally thickened at the top to form a rim, (sometimes incompletely formed), glabrous except for a few hairs on top of the rim (difficult to see in dried specimens), lobes glabrous.
capsule 3-3.5 mm long, 2-2.5 mm wide.
Published illustration:
Toelken & Dashorst (1984) J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 7:143.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: KI.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Oct.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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