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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Amaranthaceae
Sclerochlamys

Citation: F. Muell., J. Trans. Vict. Inst. 2:76 (1858).

Derivation: Greek skleros, hard; chlamys, cloak; alluding to the hard perianth.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Small pubescent shrub; leaves alternate, sessile, linear, somewhat fleshy.

Flowers bisexual, solitary and axillary, ebracteolate; perianth urceolate, shortly 5-lobed, fleshy in the lower half; stamens 5.

Fruiting perianth shortly turbinate, hard, glabrous, with 5 prominent ribs on the segments and 5 less obvious ribs between the segments, base truncate and slightly hollowed, apex truncate and extending into a hard narrow entire horizontal 5-angled wing; seed horizontal, circular; perisperm central; testa membranous.

Distribution:  A monotypic genus of central and eastern temperate Australia.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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