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Secamone elliptica R.Br.
Family Apocynaceae
Common name: Corky Milk Vine

Secamone elliptica R.Br. APNI*

Synonyms: Cynanchum dichasiale O.Schwarz APNI*

Description: Glabrous climber, sometimes tall; old stems with thick, fissured, soft corky bark; latex opaque, milky.

Leaves with lamina narrow-lanceolate to ovate, 2–5.5 cm long, 8–20 mm wide, thin, soft to firm, apex acute or acuminate, base rounded or cuneate, veins faint, lamina glands absent; petiole 1–4 mm long, slender.

Cymes branched, shorter than leaves. Flowers 3.5–5 mm diam., pale yellow. Calyx lobes c. 1 mm long. Corolla c. 3 mm long.

Follicles paired, lanceolate, 3.5–6.5 cm long.


Flowering: spring–summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in littoral and dry rainforest, north from Iluka.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld N.T.
AVH map***

Text by G. J. Harden & J. B. Williams
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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