Common name: montane tape vine
Berberidopsis beckleri (F.Muell.) Veldkamp APNI* Synonyms: Streptothamnus beckleri F.Muell. APNI*
Description: Glabrous climber.
Leaves with lamina ovate to broad-ovate, mostly 3–6 cm long, rarely to 9 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, thin and soft, hairy domatia in axils of midvein and lowest pair of secondary veins; petiole c. 20 mm long.
Flowers axillary, usually solitary, peduncle c. 20 mm long. Perianth segments 15–18, 2–8 mm long, outer segments deep pink gradually passing into inner white ones. Stamens 12–13, c. 3 mm long; anthers ± sessile. Style c. 2–3 mm long.
Berry ovoid, c. 20 mm long, red turning black, surrounded at base by persistent disc; seeds 100–120.
Distribution and occurrence: in cooler rainforest, north from the Barrington Tops area.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT
Other Australian states: Qld
Berberidopsis was previously included in Flacourtiaceae.
Text by G.J. Harden, Flora of New South Wales Vol. 1 (1990), in Flacourtiaceae.
Taxon concept: Australian Plant Census (accessed May 2017)
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