Family: Amaranthaceae
Dysphania kalpari
Citation:
Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 4:195 (1983).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Kalpari.
Description:
Prostrate to decumbent annual with several stems arising from the base, moderately pilose with sessile or shortly stipitate glandular hairs and larger simple hairs, aromatic; leaves elliptic, deeply undulate; lamina 1-5 cm long; petiole half the length of the lamina.
Inflorescence of erect slender spikes to 15 cm long, composed of 5-7-flowered clusters; flowers bisexual and female; perianth-segments 4, erect, obovate, c. 1 mm long, united below, rounded on the back, hirtellous; stamen 0 or 1; styles 2.
Seed vertical, compressed-spherical, with rounded margins, c. 0.5 mm diam.; testa glossy; embryo semicircular, basal; radicle and cotyledons superior; infructescence breaking up at the apex of the pedicels, with the seed enclosed in the perianth.
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Image source: fig. 155h-i in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 262, as Chenopodium rhadinostachyum.
Distribution:
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Usually found on loam flats and red sand plains, often associated with mulga (Acacia aneura).
S.Aust.: NW, LE. W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: May — Sept.
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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:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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