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Parsonsia tenuis S.T.Blake
Family Apocynaceae
Common name: Slender Silkpod

Parsonsia tenuis S.T.Blake APNI*

Description: Slender-stemmed twiner, to 4 m high, sap watery.

Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 3.5–11 cm long 1–2.5 cm wide, apex narrow-acuminate, base rounded, truncate to cordate, (linear to narrow-lanceolate in juvenile leaves); margins sometimes toothed near base; lamina thin and soft, upper surface dull and scabrous-hairy to glabrous, lower surface paler and softly pubescent; tertiary veins faint, few and irregular or transverse on lower surface, not forming a regular curving pattern; petiole 7–12 mm long.

Flowers in terminal or subterminal loose cymes. Corolla tube c. 2.5 mm long, lobes c. 4 mm long, spreading, bearded inside near the base. Anther cone about half exserted, filaments not twisted.

Capsule 4–9 cm long, slender.


Herbarium
Sheet

Flowering: spring.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in Nothofagus moorei rainforest and in cool subtropical rainforest to 1250 m; known only from the McPherson Ra.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by G. J. Harden & J. B. Williams
Taxon concept: J.B. Williams (1996)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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