Thryptomene
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Thryptomene is a genus of small shrubs in the family Myrtaceae which are native to Australia.
Read about Thryptomene in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Thryptomene (Greek word said to refer to the low heath-like appearance of the plant). Myrtaceae. Glabrous heath-like shrubs, which were at one time popular greenhouse plants, now apparently not so commonly in cult. Lvs. opposite, small, entire: fls. small, sessile or pedicelled, solitary at the axils or rarely fasciculate; bracteoles 2; calyx-tube hemispherical, turbinate or short-campanulate limb with 5 petaloid or scarious, entire, spreading segms.; petals 5, persistent, usually connivent above the genital organs; stamens 10; ovary inferior, 1-celled: fr. sometimes 1-seeded, indehiscent, sometimes 2-seeded and spuriously 2-berried. —About 25 species, Austral. CH
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Species
Species include:
- Thryptomene appressa C.R.P.Andrews
- Thryptomene aspera E.Pritz.
- Thryptomene australis Endl. - Hook-leaf Thryptomene
- Thryptomene baeckeacea F.Muell.
- Thryptomene biseriata J.W.Green
- Thryptomene calycina (Lindl.)
- Thryptomene costata Rye & Trudgren
- Thryptomene cuspidata (Turcz.)
- Thryptomene decussata (W.Fitzg.) J.W.Green
- Thryptomene denticulata (F.Muell.) Benth.
- Thryptomene duplicata Rye & Trudgren
- Thryptomene elliottii F.Muell.
- Thryptomene eremaea Rye & Trudgren
- Thryptomene ericaea F.Muell.
- Thryptomene hexandra C.T.White
- Thryptomene hyporhytis Turcz.
- Thryptomene johnsonii F.Muell.
- Thryptomene kochii E.Pritz.
- Thryptomene leptocalyx (F.Muell.) F.Muell.
- Thryptomene longifolia J.W.Green
- Thryptomene maisonneuvei F.Muell.
- Thryptomene micrantha Hook.f.
- Thryptomene minutiflora (Benth.) F.Muell.
- Thryptomene mucronulata Turcz.
- Thryptomene naviculata J.W.Green
- Thryptomene nealensis J.W.Green
- Thryptomene oligandra F.Muell.
- Thryptomene parviflora (Benth.) Domin
- Thryptomene racemulosa Turcz.
- Thryptomene saxicola (Hook.) Schauer - Rock Thryptomene
- Thryptomene stenophylla E.Pritz.
- Thryptomene striata Rye & Trudgren
- Thryptomene strongylophylla Benth.
- Thryptomene urceolaris F.Muell.
- Thryptomene wittweri J.W.Green
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
External links
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