Correa is a genus of eleven species of flowering plants in the family Rutaceae that are endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus Correa are shrubs to small trees with simple leaves arranged in opposite pairs, bisexual flowers with four sepals, four petals usually fused for most of their length and eight stamens.
Plants in the genus Correa are shrubs to small trees with simple leaves arranged in opposite pairs. The flowers are bisexual and are arranged in cymes in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets. The four sepals are fused, at least at the base, forming a cup-shaped calyx. The four petals are usually fused for most of their length to form a tubular corolla and the eight stamens are free from each other. There are four carpels fused at the base, the four styles are fused and the stigma is similar to the style. The follicles contain up to two dull brown seed that are released explosively.[2][3][4]
The genus Correa was first formally described in 1798 by Henry Cranke Andrews in The Botanist’s Repository for New, and Rare Plants and the first species he described was Correa alba.[5][6] The genus is named after the Portuguese botanist José Correia da Serra (1750–1823), known as Abbé Correa.[7]
Leave a reply
