Osteocarpum
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Origin
Native
Degree of establishment
Native
Decumbent to erect, virtually glabrous, annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, sessile, terete to clavate. Flowers bisexual, solitary in axils, glabrous except for margins of the 5 membranous lobes; tube fleshy; stamens 5. Body (tube) of fruiting perianth subglobular, woody; apex with 0–4 tubercles or vertical wings developing between the immersed perianth lobes; style base hardened, pericarp otherwise membranous; seed horizontal.
Endemic Australian genus of 5 species, barely distinct from Threlkeldia in which it was included by Bentham (1870).
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Chenopodiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 129–199. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
Updated by: Val
Stajsic,
7 Sep. 2020
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