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Genus Ricinocarpos Family Euphorbiaceae

Synonyms: Ricinocarpus APNI*

Description: Monoecious shrubs.

Leaves usually alternate, entire, the margins recurved or revolute; stipules absent. Male flowers solitary or in racemes, terminal or apparently axillary; sepals 4–6, basally fused; petals 4–6, longer than the sepals; glands as many as the petals; stamens numerous, filaments united to form a central column. Female flowers solitary, adjacent to a male flower or surrounded by several male flowers; perianth similar to the male flowers; ovary 3-locular; styles 3, basally united and deeply bifid.

Fruit a capsule; seeds with a caruncle.


Distribution and occurrence: World: 16 species, Australia, New Caledonia. Australia: 15 species (endemic), Qld, N.S.W., Vic., Tas., W.A.

Text by T. A. James & G. J. Harden
Taxon concept:

Taxa not yet included in identification key
Ricinocarpos linearifolius

 Key to the species 
1Leaves linear to oblong, margins revolute to the midrib or distinctly recurved, less than 4 cm long, mostly 1–3 mm wide2
Leaves lanceolate to more or less oblong, margins slightly recurved, mostly more than 4 cm long and 5–12 mm wideRicinocarpos speciosus
2Branches and outer surface of sepals glabrous; leaves glabrous, smooth, petiole to c. 3 mm long; petals 10–15 mm longRicinocarpos pinifolius
Branches and outer surface of sepals woolly to tomentose; leaves with upper surface sparsely stellate-hairy, becoming more or less scabrous with age, more or less sessile; petals c. 10 mm long
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Ricinocarpos bowmanii

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