Family: Rutaceae
Plant: A prostrate or erect shrub up to 1.5m high with rusty, hairy branchlets.
Flowers: Drooping, 2-3cm long, tubular, 4-lobed, red with curled-back yellowish-green tips and protruding stamens. The flowers are borne in groups of 1-3 flowers at ends of lateral branches.
Flowering: May-September.
Fruit: Green segmented coccus 6-9mm long.
Leaves: Ovate opposite, hairy, 1.5-5cm long and 5-30mm wide, heart-shaped at the base, rough, dark green above, pale green and rusty below.
Habitat: Dry sclerophyll forest and heathland.
Features: Drooping, red, tubular flowers yellowish lobed tips.
Name:
Correa After the Portuguese botanist Joseph Correa de Serra
reflexa From Latin = bent-backwards (referring to its labellum)
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Shrub |
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Flowers |
Form |
Tubular/Bell-shaped, Single |
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Colour(s) |
Red, Yellow, Green |
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Petal/Sepal No. |
4 |
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Flowering Month |
5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
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Fruit |
Type |
Other |
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Colour |
Green |
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Other Features |
- |
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Leaves |
Arrangement |
Opposite |
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Type |
Simple |
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Shape |
Oval |
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Length |
Short |
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Margins |
Entire |
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Attachment |
Stalked |
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Other Features |
Hairy, Discolorous |
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Bark |
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- |
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Habitat |
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Dry sclerophyll forest, Heathland |
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