Classification
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Liparophyllum Hook.f., Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany 472 (1847)
 Description

Fls solitary on terminal peduncles, 5-merous; calyx deeply cut into linear segs; corolla subrotate, deeply lobed, the margins broad, thin, induplicate-valvate. Stamens with short broad filaments; anthers oblong, introrse. Ovary 1-celled; placentae 2, parietal; style very short, stigma 2-lamellate. Fr. fleshy, globose or subglobose, indehiscent. Seeds ∞, minute, suborbicular. A genus of 1 known sp. originally discovered in Tasmania.

[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Liparophyllum Hook.f.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Non-endemic)1
Total1
 Bibliography
Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.