Family: Polygonaceae
Muehlenbeckia coccoloboides
Citation:
J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 42:170 (1918).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Stems woody at the base, procumbent or usually twining over other plants; branches intricate, flexible, smooth and glaucous; leaves linear, caducous.
Flower-clusters usually far apart, sometimes in the axil of a small leaf; female flowers sessile; male perianth with a tube rather shorter than the lobes; female perianth ovoid or globose, fleshy, crowned by the 5 minute lobes, reddish and 6-7 mm long in fruit.
Nut trigonous, acute, black and shining; seed trigonous, reddish, granular.
| male twig and flowers on left, female twig, flowers and fruiting perianth on right
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Image source: fig. 97 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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| Fruiting perianth (above) and fruit
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Image source: fig. 95b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Morley & Toelken (1983) Flowering plant families in Australia, fig. 47.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: June — 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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