Family: Portulacaceae
Claytonia perfoliata
Citation:
Donn ex Willd., Sp. Pl. 1:1186 (1798).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
The 2 stem leaves broad-ovate to rounded, connate into a large cup-like involucre; sepals 2-3 mm long; petals white or pink, 2-5 mm long.
Seeds orbicular, black, shiny, smooth, c. 1.5 mm diam.
Published illustration:
Heywood (1978) Flowering plants of the world, p. 75.
Distribution:
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Native to North America; naturalised in Vic. and possibly S.Aust.: SL.
S.Aust.: SL.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Taxonomic notes:
J. Black (1948) recorded this species from Horsnell Gully in the Mount Lofty Range. However, no herbarium specimens collected in S.Aust. have been located and so the occurrence of C. perfoliata in S.Aust. is in doubt.
Author:
Not yet available
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