Lagunaria
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Establishment means
Introduced
Trees, densely covered with minute scurfy scales, sometimes glabrescent with age. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire. Flowers bisexual, solitary in upper leaf-axils; epicalyx fused, cup-shaped, caducous, or reduced to a ridge surrounding the base of the calyx; calyx 5-lobed, cup-shaped; petals 5, free, cream to pink, with stellate scales; stamens numerous; staminal column c. half the length of corolla; ovary 5-locular; ovules 2–several per locule; style 1; stigmas 5, capitate. Fruit a capsule dehiscing loculicidally and eventually septicidally; seeds reniform, glabrous.
2 species, endemic to Australia (1 from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands and 1 from Queensland).
Created by: Andre
Messina,
21 Jul. 2015
Spinning
genus
Lagunaria
