Nematolepis
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Establishment means
Native
Degree of establishment
Native
Shrubs or small trees, stems, leaves and sepals with peltate scales. Leaves alternate, simple, margins entire. Inflorescences axillary, cymose or flowers solitary. Flowers bisexual, 5-merous; pedicels with a pair of bracteoles; sepals free; petals imbricate, free, or rarely, united (not in Victoria), deciduous; stamens 10, free, filaments glabrous or stellate-hairy, anthers slightly retuse; carpels 5, 1-locular, free, shortly beaked; basal parts of styles fused to adaxial angle of carpels, stigma scarcely differentiated from style. Fruit follicular, not transversely ridged, apices shortly beaked; seeds 1 (rarely 2) per follicle, released explosively with elastic endocarp.
A genus of seven species, one in WA, the remainder in eastern States.
Created by: Neville
Walsh,
24 May 2016
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