Citation: J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 49:273 (1925).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: South Australian green correa.

Description:
Tall dense shrub, 1-3 x 1-2 m; stem often densely covered with minute hairs; petiole 3-6 mm, lamina narrowly ovate or ovate to elliptic, 2-4 x 1-2.5 cm, glabrous to tomentose on both surfaces.

Solitary pendulous flowers on lateral or axillary branchlets; peduncles 2-4 mm long; calyx of 4 broadly lanceolate lobes c. 10 x 5 mm; corolla cylindrical; petals 2-3 cm long, green often darkening to mauve after anthesis; filaments of the stamens opposite the petals with broader bases; anthers yellow, exserted one-quarter to one-third the length of the corolla; ovary white-tomentose.

fruit 5-8 mm high, corolla deciduous, calyx lobes enclosing the fruit; seeds 4-6 x 1-2 mm, mottled grey-black-brown.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: April — Sept.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: Whilst this is, apparently, a distinct taxon, morphological and chemical evidence supports a hybrid origin for C. calycina. Parent taxa appear to be C. aemula and C. glabra. The "C. reflexa" of Black, with flowers solitary or in clusters of 2-4, is also related to C. calycina and appears to share a similar origin. At this stage it should be referred to as C. sp. aft. calycina. Although poorly collected at this stage, plants from north-west KI may also belong to this complex.

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