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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. 2. Tribe Westringieae Bartl. (1830).
Tribe prostanthereae Benth. (1834).
Description
Shrubs or undershrubs, non-aromatic; branches ± round in cross-section; leaves decussate; inflorescence frondose-bracteate, thyrsoid, terminal, few-flowered; bracteoles 2; calyx 2-lipped; corolla white, distinctly 2-lipped, 5-lobed (2/3), posterior lip with lobes directed outwards, anterior lip with median lobe directed outwards and forward to recurved, lateral lobes spreading, tube expanded in throat; stamens 2 , posterior pair reduced to staminodes, inserted on anterior side of corolla-throat, anthers 2-thecous, staminodes inserted on posterior side of corolla-throat, staminodes ± club-shaped, white; fruit of 4 mericarps, enclosed by inward folded anterior calyx-lobe, posterior calyx-lobe usually recurved. Two species, endemic to Australia.
Distribution
Native to:
50 Australia
Publication
Wrixonia F.Muell., Fragm. 10: 18 (1876); Carrick, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 1: 27-34 (1976).
Image resource
© Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew