Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Liparophyllum Hook.f.

LIPAROPHYLLUM Hook. f., 1847

Fls solitary on terminal peduncles, 5-merous; calyx deeply cut into linear segs; corolla subrotate, deeply lobed, the margins broad, thin, induplicate-valvate. Stamens with short broad filaments; anthers oblong, introrse. Ovary 1-celled; placentae 2, parietal; style very short, stigma 2-lamellate. Fr. fleshy, globose or subglobose, indehiscent. Seeds ∞, minute, suborbicular. A genus of 1 known sp. originally discovered in Tasmania.

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