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