Family: Restionaceae
Centrolepis aristata
Citation:
Roemer & Schultes Syst. Veg. 1:44 (1817).
Synonymy: Devauxia arisrata R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 253 (1810).
, Devauxia aristata Common name: Pointed centrolepis.
Description:
Annual herb 2-10 cm high, rigidly erect, bright-green or becoming reddish after flowering; leaves equitant, distichous, linear-subulate, keeled, acute, 1-6 cm long, 0.8-1.6 mm wide, glabrous, shiny; innermost leaf not reduced.
Scapes flattened, 2-edged, 1-8 cm long, glabrous; head flattened, oblong-ovoid, 1.3-3 mm wide; primary bracts opposite, somewhat gaping, with cartilaginous brown bases and leaf-like laminae, glabrous, the outer bract 8-35 mm long, the inner one 4-30 mm; pseudanthia 20-30; secondary bracts truncate, 2 or 3 per pseudanthium; female florets 3-6 per pseudanthium; styles free to the base.
Seed narrowly ovoid, c. 0.7 mm long.
Distribution:
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In moist microhabitats within mallee, scrub, woodland and forest on sand and other infertile soils.
S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE. W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Sept. — Dec.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
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