Family: Amaranthaceae
Halosarcia flabelliformis
Citation:
Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 3:52 (1980).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Woody perennial to 20 cm high; branches ascending; articles narrow-obovoid to barrel-shaped, c. 5 mm long, c. 2.5 mm wide, dull to glossy; lobes almost truncate, entire.
Spikes terminal, cylindrical, 20-40 mm long; opposite bracts free from each other; flowers vertical to the axis, free; perianth succulent; apex truncate; lateral lobes prominent; abaxial lobe very small, overlapped by the laterals.
Fruiting spike eventually disarticulating into separate axis, bracts, perianth halves and pericarps with the enclosed seed; perianth translucent; pericarp membranous; seed broadly elliptic, flat, c. 1.8 mm long; testa thin, translucent, with several rows of small tubercles over the embryo.
| Halosarcia flabelliformis spike, portion of spike and seed
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Image source: fig. 158a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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Found on coastal salt flats.
Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: Jan. — May.
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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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