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Oxypetalum helios

Botanic Family
Apocynaceae
Author
Farinaccio

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Twining herb with pubescent stems. Leaves to 85mm x 30mm, minutely hairy on midvein & margins. Extra-axillary inflorescence of 2-9 flowers with puberulous bracts to 3.3mm x 0.7mm. Cream or yellow-green flowers with twisted petals, yellow to green calyx with dark purple at base with puberulous lobes to 6mm x 1mm, cream to yellow corolla with puberulous tube to 30mm long & twisted lobes to 13mm x 2mm. Green to brown puberulous follicles to 85mm x 25mm.

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