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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:  S.Aust.: KI.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Oct.


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