Family: Rhamnaceae
Trymalium
Citation:
Fenzl, in Endl., Enum. Pl. Hügel 20 (1837).
Derivation: Greek trymalia, an aperture; alluding to the 3 slits at the summit of the fruit when it opens.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Shrubs hoary on the branches, glabrous or stellate-tomentose in parts; leaves alternate, petiolate, flat, pinnately nerved, green above, pale below.
flowers small, pedicellate in small raceme-like cymes, bisexual, stellate-tomentose; buds globular; bracts caducous; sepals 5, persistent; petals hood-shaped, enclosing the anthers; stamens 5, anthers on short filaments; floral tube hollow, not extended upwards beyond the adnate part of the ovary; ovary almost wholly inferior, usually 3-celled, the summit stellate-tomentose; disk annular, 5-lobed; style 3-branched, the branches clavate.
Capsule small, with a thin exocarp protruding and convex above the floral tube so that the whole fruit is pyriform, the protruding summit opening in 3 deltoid valves, the endocarp separating into 3 coriaceous 1-seeded fruitlets, mature fruits and seeds not found in S.Aust. but probably as for Pomaderris.
Distribution:
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About 12 species in Australia.
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Biology:
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Taxonomic notes:
A single specimen from SL (Anstey Hill) resembles Trymalium in the flowers but has glabrous ovaries and leaves and the leaves are broad and c. 3.5-4 cm long. It has been tentatively placed in Trymalium but may be introduced.
Author:
Prepared by J.P. Jessop
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