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Spartothamnella juncea

Botanic Family
Lamiaceae
Author
(A. Cunningham ex Walpers) Briquet

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Wiry scrambling shrub to 3m, striate glabrous stems, tetragonal branches & branchlets. Glabrous or puberulent leaves to 18mm x 5mm. Axillary 1-3 flowered inflorescence with bracts to 1.5mm x 0.5mm & minute bracteoles. Flowers 3mm wide with calyx to 2.5mm long & tube 0.5mm & 5 lobes to 2mm long, white corolla to 4mm long with tube 2mm x 1.5mm & 4 lobes to 1.5mm x 1mm. Red or orange glabrous drupe to 4mm x 4mm with persistent fruiting calyx 3mm wide.

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