Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 4:160 (1983).

Synonymy: Rhagodia gaudichaudiana Moq., Chenop. Monogr. Enum. 11 (1840).

Common name: None

Description:
Scrambling shrub to 2m high; leaves alternate, with slender petioles; lamina deltoid to narrow-hastate, 5-15 mm long, densely mealy with cream-coloured vesicular hairs.

Inflorescence a pyramidal panicle 5-10 cm long, with distinct clusters of flowers; branches and main axis flexuose; flowers polygamo-monoecious, subsessile, depressed-globular, c. 1.5 mm diam. at anthesis, enlarging to 3.5 mm in fruit, eventually spreading and c. 7 mm wide; perianth 5-lobed, densely mealy outside with vesicular hairs; stamens 5, united at the base into a puberulent disk; stigmas 2, delicate, strongly penicillate.

Fruit a berry; pericarp usually succulent, orange to red; seed lenticular, with a rounded margin, c. 1.4 mm diam., testa deeply reticulate with a rough surface, a dark reddish-brown.

Distribution:  Occurring in sand or clay soil, often slightly saline. S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, EP.   W.Aust. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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