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; branches ± round in cross-section, mostly glutinous; leaves sessile or petiolate, decussate; inflorescence terminal, cymose, openly paniculate, or with flowers on leafy branches (hence appearing axillary), part-inflorescences 1 to many-flowered; bracteoles 2; calyx broadly campanulate, 5-lobed or distally sinuately toothed; corolla deep blue to dark purple, zygomorphic, 5-lobed, anterior lobe larger than other 4, tube broadly campanulate; stamens 4, inserted near base of corolla-tube, exserted; anthers with thecae free in lower half; ovary ± unlobed; style with stigma-lobes minute and often unequal; fruit dry, hard, indehiscent, usually ± oblique, surrounded by enlarged calyx, 1- or 2-seeded.  Five species, all endemic in Australia.

Distribution

Native to:

50 Australia

Synonyms

Bunnya F.Muell., Fragm. 5: 36 (1865). 

Publication

Cyanostegia Turcz., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 22(2): 35 (1849); Munir, Brunonia 1: 46-67 (1978).

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