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Genus Knoxia Family Rubiaceae

Description: Herbs or subshrubs.

Leaves opposite, stipules sheathing, toothed or fimbriate.

Flowers in terminal cymes, bisexual, 4-merous. Calyx tubular, usually with 4 minute teeth; persistent in fruit. Corolla tube slender, valvate in bud. Stamens 4, inserted on throat of corolla. Ovary 2-locular, with 1 ovule per loculus; style shortly 2-lobed.

Fruit a dry capsule, carpels 2 separating from the base upwards or falling entire.


Distribution and occurrence: World: 15 species, Indomelesia. Australia: 1 species (endemic).

Text by T. A. James
Taxon concept:

One species in NSW: Knoxia sumatrensis

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