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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Ericaceae
Monotoca

Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 546 (1810).

Derivation: Greek monos, one; tokos, a birth; the ovary has only one ovule.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Compact shrubs or small trees; young branches brown or red-brown, scabrous; leaves erect to spreading, convex or flat with recurved margins.

Flowers small, solitary, or in short few-flowered axillary or terminal spikes or racemes; each flower with a subtending small bract and 2 bracteoles which are sometimes caducous; flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual; corolla tube usually campanulate, lobes 5 (or sometimes 4), valvate in bud, spreading in male flowers, more erect in female flowers, glabrous; filaments short, inserted at the top of the corolla tube, anthers enclosed or exserted; nectary annular or in scales, lobed or toothed; ovary unicellular (or 2-celled in 1 sp. from W.Aust.) with 1 ovule per cell; style short; stigma lobed.

Fruit a small somewhat fleshy drupe.

Distribution:  11 species, endemic to Australia.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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