Lampranthus
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Establishment means
Introduced
Prostrate to erect perennial herbs or subshrubs; branches mostly compressed. Leaves opposite, usually connate at base, terete to trigonous. Flowers solitary or in cymes, axillary or terminal, subsessile to pedicellate; sepals 5, subequal; petaloid staminodes numerous; ovary inferior, 5-locular; ovules numerous, parietal. Fruit a 5-locular capsule; valves winged; locules remaining partly covered by an elastic, membranous 'roof'; seeds pear-shaped, tuberculate.
About 195 species endemic in the Cape Province of South Africa; 4 species naturalised in Australia.
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Aizoaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 105–119. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
Updated by: Val
Stajsic,
28 May 2018
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