Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Abstract
[Extract] Scandent shrubs or small trees, with schizogenous canals, lenticellate. Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, petiole bundles all annular; lamina elliptic to ovate to obovate, margin entire or irregularly toothed; glandular lineate. Inflorescence racemose or paniculate, axillary or rarely terminal, bracteate. Flowers regular, 5-merous (in Australian species), unisexual or bisexual, subtended by a bract and two bracteoles; calyx adnate to ovary, lobes variously united; corolla campanulate to urceolate, fused at least at base, glandular lineate; stamens antepetalous, adnate to corolla tube, anthers dorsifixed, introrse opening by longitudinal slits, often notched at apex; ovary perigynous, unilocular, placentation free central, ovules numerous, immersed in placenta, 1–several rows; style short; stigma obtuse to discoid to slightly notched. Fruit dry to thinly fleshy, mesocarp somewhat woody, indehiscent, calyx persistent. Seeds numerous, angular, dark brown to black; embryo oblique and transverse, endosperm present
