Subfamily

IV. Subfam. Prostantheroideae Luerssen (1882).

Subfam. Chloranthoideae Briq. (1895).

Dicrastylidaceae Drummond ex Harvey (1855), nom. inval.

Verbenaceae tribe Viticeae subtribe Chloanthinae Benth. (1870).

Verbenaceae tribe Chloantheae Benth. (1895).

Stilbaceae subfam. Chloanthoideae Briq.: sensu Moldenke (1959).

IV. 1. Tribe Chlorantheae Benth. & Hook. f. (1876).

Description

Shrubs or subshrubs; stems ± round in cross-section; indumentum lanate with hairs branched; leaves sessile, decurrent, decussate or ternate, bullate-rugose; inflorescence cymose, with flowers on leafy branches (hence appearing axillary) and part-inflorescences usually 1-flowered; bracteoles 2; flowers zygomorphic; calyx 5-lobed; corolla pale mauve, greenish blue or greenish yellow, distinctly 2-lipped, 5-lobed (2/3), or occasionally unequally 5-lobed in distal half; anterior lip with median lobe rarely larger than others; corolla-tube expanded in throat; stamens 4, inserted below middle of corolla tube, just exserted, anthers with shortly divergent basal lobes; ovary ± unlobed; style with stigma-lobes present; fruit drupaceous, usually separating into two 2-locular mericarps.  Four species, all endemic to Australia.

Distribution

Native to:

50 Australia

Synonyms

Cloanthe Nees in R.Brown, Verm. Bot. Schr. 1: 78 (1825).

Hemistemon F.Muell., Fragm. 10: 73 (1876).

Publication

Chloanthes R.Br., Prodr. 1: 513 (1810); Munir, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 1: 83-105 (1977); Conn, Fl. New South Wales 3: 619 (1992).

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