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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Pittosporaceae
Sollya

Citation: Lindley, Edward's Bot. Reg. 17:t. 1466 (1832).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Twiners or shrubs with flexuose branches; leaves alternate, linear or lanceolate, glabrous or more or less pubescent.

Flowers drooping, solitary or in few-flowered terminal corymbs; sepals free; petals blue, obovate, spreading from the base; staminal filaments free; anthers cohering at their apices, dehiscing longitudinally; ovary sessile, pubescent, 2-celled; ovules numerous.

Fruit a cylindrical berry, glabrous to pubescent; seeds numerous, verrucose.

Distribution:  Endemic to W.Aust.; 2 species.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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