Levenhookia

Taxonomic status Accepted
Occurrence status Present
Origin Native
Degree of establishment Native

Ephemeral herbs. Leaves few, sessile or petiolate, alternate and scattered along stems, margins entire. Inflorescences terminal corymbs or racemes, sparsely glandular-pubescent. Flowers zygomorphic, pedicellate in the axis of a small bract. Calyx-lobes scarcely fused, subequal; corolla with 4 posterior subequal lobes (folded at night or in dull weather) and a shorter erect, motile labellum with a concave or hood-shaped lamina covering the column; column non-motile, short, c. erect, basally fused with calyx-tube; stigma 2-lobed or undivided; ovary with many ovules on a globular basal placenta. Fruit a 2-valved globular capsule, glandular-hispid; seeds less than 0.5 mm long.

8 species, all endemic to southern Australia.

Source:

Raulings, E.J. (1999). Stylidiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., ‍Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae‍, pp. 579–587. Inkata Press, Melbourne.

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