''Kardomia '' is a genus of flowering plants in the family

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and is

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to eastern Australia. Plants in the genus ''Kardomia'' are shrubs with leaves arranged in opposite pairs and with flowers with a ridged or rough floral cup, five petals and four to thirteen

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Description

Plants in the genus ''Kardomia'' are shrubs with

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arranged in opposite pairs. The flowers are usually arranged singly and have a ridged, rough or pimply floral cup that usually tapers to the

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. The

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s have a thinly-textured inner lobe, the swelling at the back of the sepal thickened and often pointed. Each flower has five white petals and four to thirteen stamens. The fruit is a thin-walled capsule containing flattened D-shaped seeds.

Taxonomy

The genus was ''Kardomia'' was first formally described in 2007 by Peter Wilson in ''

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'', and the first species to be described (the

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) was '' K. squarrulosa'', and includes species previously included in '' Baeckea'' and '' Babingtonia''. The following is a list of species of ''Kardomia'' accepted by the

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as of August 2023: * '' Kardomia granitica'' ( A.R.Bean) Peter G.Wilson (Qld.) * '' Kardomia jucunda'' ( S.T.Blake) Peter G.Wilson (Qld., N.S.W.) * '' Kardomia odontocalyx'' (A.R.Bean) Peter G.Wilson (N.S.W.) * '' Kardomia prominens'' (A.R.Bean) Peter G.Wilson (N.S.W.) * '' Kardomia silvestris'' (A.R.Bean) Peter G.Wilson (Qld., N.S.W.) * '' Kardomia squarrulosa'' (Domin) Peter G.Wilson (Qld.)

References

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