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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Osteocarpum acropterum

Citation: Volkens, Nafürl. Pflanzenfam. 3, la: 72 (1893).

Synonymy: Babbagia acroptera F. Muell. & Tate, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 6:108 (1883).

Common name: Water weed, babbagia.

Description:
Rounded perennial branching from the base, c. 15 cm high, glabrous or sparsely pilose when young; leaves semiterete, 3-5 mm long, fleshy.

Fruiting perianth: tube subglobular, c. 0.6 mm high, smooth or multiribbed, stipitate on a hollow cylindrical base equal in length to the tube; apex usually produced into 2 opposite erect tubercles which bear vertical obovate wings c. 3 mm long, or only the radicular tubercle present and winged, or this tubercle prominent and radially flattened but un-winged.

Conservation status: native

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: There are 2 varieties which grade into each other.

Key to Infraspecific taxa:
1. Vertical wings 1 or 2, prominent
var. acropterum 1a.
1. Vertical wings absent; radicular tubercle narrow-oblong, prominent
var. deminutum 1b.

Author: Not yet available


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