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Subfamily
IV. Subfam. Prostantheroideae Luerssen (1882).
Subfam. Chloranthoideae Briq. (1895).
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; indumentum densely lanate with hairs branched; leaves sessile, decussate; inflorescence a terminal thyrse, often leafy and hence appearing axillary, ± branched or unbranched, with part-inflorescences pedunculate, elongate and spike-like, or ± lax, corymbose or pyramidal-paniculate, many-flowered; bracteoles 2; flowers ± actinomorphic, sessile or subsessile; calyx 5-8(- 9)-lobed, densely woolly; corolla ± as large as calyx, ± purple, lobes absent or very minutely 5-8-lobed, rarely more, tube campanulate; stamens 5-8, rarely more, inserted on rim of corolla-tube, exserted, anthers dorsifixed, free and divergent in lower half; ovary ± unlobed; style with stigma-lobes minute or stigma entire; fruit dry, globose, indehiscent, 1-seeded. Six species, all endemic to Australia.
Distribution
Native to:
50 Australia
Synonyms
Walcottia F.Muell., Fragm. 1: 241 (1859).
Pycnolachne Turcz., Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 36(2): 215 (1863).
Publication
Lachnostachys Hook., Icon. Pl. N.S. 1: 415, t. 414 (1842); Munir, Brunonia 1: 643-679 (1978).
Image resource
© Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew