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New Zealand Journal of Botany abstractsB00019 Received 7 June 2000; accepted 21 August 2000
Relationships of Streblorrhiza (Fabaceae), an extinct monotypic genus from Phillip Island, South Pacific OceanP. B. HEENAN
Landcare Research
Abstract Aspects of the stem, fruit, and leaf anatomy and
morphology are described for the extinct Streblorrhiza speciosa. The
stems of Streblorrhiza have persistent pith, upright ray parenchyma
cells, and the vessels are solitary or in radial multiples, with single
perforations, no helical thickenings, their pits are alternate and vestured,
and they sometimes have grooves interconnecting pit apertures. An important
fruit character of Streblorrhiza is the orientation of the fibres in a
single direction, a character shared with the New Zealand Clianthus and
Carmichaelia. |