Quoya loxocarpa

Description

Quoya loxocarpa is an open shrub with many spindly,interlacing branches mostly rising from the base of the plant.The leaves are elliptic to oblong in shape,sometimes almost round,? cm (0.? in) long ? cm (0.? in),usually with the edges wavy or irregularly toothed.They have loose,woolly hairs when young but become wikt:glabrous as they mature.The flowers are arranged in the upper leaf axils,usually in a groups of to flowers on a thin stalk .? mm (0.?0. in) long.There is a bract ? mm (0.?0. in) long,woolly on the outside surface,at the base of the groups and small bracteoles.The five sepals are ? mm (0.?0. in) long and at the base to form a tube ? mm (0.0?0.0 in) long,with thin,lance-shaped lobes on the end.The sepal tube is densely covered with purplish,woolly hairs on the outside and glabrous on the inside.The petals are whitish pink with purple spots in the throat,?0 mm (0.?0. in) long,forming a tube with a wide opening and five short broad lobes.The lowest lobe is very broad,more or less circular,? mm (0.?0. in) long and ? mm (0.?0. in) wide.The other four lobes are about half that size and roughly similar to each other.The outside of the petal tube is covered with short,soft hairs and is glabrous inside apart from a ring of hairs around the ovary and a few long hairs on the largest petal lobe.The four stamens are shorter than the petal tube,the upper pair much shorter than the lower pair.Flowering occurs mainly from July to November and is followed by fruit which is a curved oval shape,.? mm (0.?0. in) long and has the sepals attached.