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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Poranthera Rudge

PORANTHERA Rudge, 1811

Plants monoec. or dioec.; fls solitary to subumbellately or cymosely arranged, 5-merous; calyx petaloid, deeply lobed; petals present, smaller than calyx, or absent. Anthers ± 4-celled, the cells opening by a terminal pore. Ovary depressed-globular, 6-lobed, 3-celled; styles 3. Fr. capsular, splitting into 3 2-valved cocci. Genus of a few Australian and 2 N.Z. spp., of which P. microphylla also occurs in Australia and Tasmania.

Key

1
Lvs of linear order, revolute to midvein
1. alpina
Lvs of obovate order, flat or nearly so
2. microphylla
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