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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Parsonsia R.Br.

PARSONSIA R. Br., 1809

Fls small, in ± corymbose cymes, 5-merous; calyx us. with 5 glandular scales within; corolla-tube subcylindric, lobes spreading; stamens inserted at or near middle of tube, filaments sts twisted; anthers connivent or coherent around stigma, cells produced below. Ovary 2-loculed, style slender, ovules ∞.Fr. of 2 coherent, finally separating follicles. Seeds with tuft of hairs (coma) at apex. Mostly softly woody stemtwining lianes. Type sp. Periploca capsularis Forst. f. Some 40 spp. of tropical Asia, Malaya, Pacific Is, Australia, N.Z. The N.Z. spp. endemic.

Key

1
Fls 6-8 mm. long; calyx distinctly < corolla-tube; anthers not or hardly reaching beyond throat
1. heterophylla
Fls hardly up to 4 mm.long; calyx nearly = corolla-tube; anthers distinctly exserted beyond throat
2. capsularis
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