

which resulted in a very fine limbus-to-limbus superficial punctate keratitis. Stamens subequalling petals or slightly exserted to 1 mm in staminate and 2/3 petal length in pistillate anthers ovate or oblong, base sagittate, apex rounded, connective black punctate. Pellucid Marginal Degeneration: Phyllis Rakow, COMT, FCLSA. Petals free, elliptic or oblong, papery, pellucid punctate, densely glandular granulose inside, margin entire, long glandular papillose, apex acute to obtuse. Sepals deltate, pellucid-punctate, glandular papillose adaxially and on margin, apex acuminate. Pedicel (2-)3-3.5 mm in staminate, 1.5-2.5 mm in pistillate, sparsely to densely papillose puberulent. Flowers greenish or white, (4 or)5-merous, papery, staminate 2-2.5 mm, pistillate 1.5-2 mm. Inflorescences terminal, pinnately pyramidal paniculate, (6-) 10-l5(-30) cm bracts subulate or lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm, sparsely puberulent abaxially, black punctate-lineate, margin entire, sparsely glandular puberulent, apex subulate. Petiole 5-10 mm, marginate to base leaf blade elliptic, oblong, or narrowly obovate, (3.5-)5-8(-10) × (1.5-)3-3.5 cm, papery, leathery or rarely cartilaginous, glabrous, pellucid or black punctate, base cuneate or rounded, margin revolute, entire, apex acuminate, rarely subacute lateral veins inconspicuous. Branchlets angled, longitudinally ridged, densely tawny or rusty papillose-tomentose. Any errors in the key data will be reflected in the descriptions.8. (Note: this description has been generated from the coded data compiled for the key. Disseminule micro-surface ±smooth, yellow, brown or grey, dull. very clear in meaning and easy to understand: He writes in pellucid prose. Fruit a dry, dehiscent loculicidal capsule the perianth on the maturing fruit deciduous. Ovules 2 per locule, stalked placentation axile. Branchlets and inflorescence rachis tawny papillose-tomentose perianth inconspicuously pellucid punctate, margin long glandular papillose sepals acuminate. Style terminal, single, unbranched and with the stigma capitate and 3-lobed. Anthers basifixed, not versatile, opening sideways by longitudinal slits 2-celled.
PELLUCID PUNCTATE FREE
Fertile stamens 8–10, opposite to the calyx lobes, free of the corolla, free of the ovary and style, distinct from each other, all ±equal. Corolla segments free, with 5 segments, alternating with the calyx lobes corolla bell-shaped, white or pink, membranous lobes ±entire. Calyx segments fused, with 5 lobes calyx bell-shaped, herbaceous. Perianth regular, of 2 dissimilar whorls, imbricate in bud. Lamina once compound, imparipinnate leaflets symmetric, filiform, acicular, subulate, linear, lanceolate or ovate base cuneate or rounded margins serrate or spiny venation pinnate, with the midrib conspicuous, and the tertiary venation reticulate surfaces dark- or pellucid-punctate or not punctate leathery distinctive odour absent or foetid. The complete, prefect, actinomorphic flowers are. Stipules distinct and free from petiole, bristle-like, falling off early stipellae absent. The leaves have very faint pellucid-punctate dots and will release a menthol type odor when crushed. ovary superior, developing into a dull red, pear-shaped capsuleĮvergreen trees.superior, 3-carpellate ovary with a single style and 3-lobed stigma.flowers small, regular, with 5 sepals and petals and usually 8 stamens Petiole canaliculate, 5-13 mm leaf blade elliptic, lanceolate, to obovate, 5-16 × 2-5 cm, leathery, inconspicuously pellucid punctate, base cuneate or obtuse to rounded, smooth adaxially, margin entire toward base and subentire to serrate distally with mucronate teeth, apex acuminate to acute or obtuse lateral veins 5-8 on each side of midrib.trees, with large, prickly-toothed, pinnate leaves.Rainforests of the MacPherson-Macleay region of south-eastern QueenslandĬharacteristic features of the family Akaniaceae in Australia include: Families of Flowering Plants of AustraliaĪkania lucens, the only species in this family, is endemic to coastal
