Dissocarpus
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Origin
Native
Degree of establishment
Native
Decumbent to erect subshrubs with woolly branchlets. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear to narrowly obovate, covered with silky or woolly hairs. Flowers bisexual, sessile, 2-many in leaf axils and fused together at their bases; perianth immersed in woolly hairs, cup-shaped, 5-lobed; stamens 5, stigmas 2. Fruiting perianth woody, the aggregated fruit consisting of 2–16 parts, falling as a whole, spines present or absent; pericarp crustaceous above, membranous below; seed horizontal; testa membranous to thinly crustaceous.
Endemic Australian genus of 4 species.
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.
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