Patersonia
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Description
Caespitose to rhizomatous herbs or undershrubs.
Inflorescences terminal, in few-flowered contracted cymes, each with 2 spathes.
Flowers actinomorphic, sessile, bluish to purple, exceptionally yellow or whitish, Tepals dimorphic, united into a long and filiform tube at the base, the inner lobes inconspicuous.
Stamens 3, united into an undivided or trifid tube.
Ovary cylindrical, lanate;
Capsules loculicidal, included.
Seeds angular or ellipsoidal.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical, Australasia: Tasmania (Tasmania present)
Australia and Tasmania (12 spp) and Malesia (1 sp.).