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Genus Triflorensia Family Rubiaceae

Description: Shrubs or small trees; branchlets pale brown or greyish with flaky bark, 3-branched.

Leaves entire, coriaceous, petiolate. Stipules connate.

Inflorescences terminal, trichotomously branched, often several times. Flowers bisexual 4 or 5-merous, middle flower of the triad usually sessile, lateral flowers pedicellate. Calyx turbinate. Corolla funnel shaped. Stamens 4 or 5, anthers introrse. Ovules 2-locular, style slender, as long as corolla tube with 2 erect lobes at the apex.

Fruits globlose, green, turning black when ripe, smooth.


Distribution and occurrence: Endemic to Australia: 3 species.

Text by Louisa Murray
Taxon concept: Austrobaileya 7(1): 43(2005) Renolds and Forster, Revision of Tarenna and Triflorensia.

One species in NSW: Triflorensia cameronii

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