Family: Amaranthaceae
Sclerolaena limbata
Citation:
Ulbr., Natürl. Pflanzenfam. edn 2, 16c:534 (1934).
Synonymy: Bassia limbala J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 46:567 (1922).
, Bassia limbata Common name: Pearl copperburr.
Description:
Shrub to 1 m high, tomentose all over with shortly branched hairs; leaves slender, semiterete to clavate, 10-30mm long, often recurved at the apex, fleshy.
Flowers solitary; perianth tomentose.
Fruiting perianth hard, tomentose; attachment basal, elliptic, c. 3.5 mm long; tube very shortly turbinate, c. 2 mm high and c. 3 mm wide at the apex; limb erect, cylindrical, shortly exceeding the tube; spines 2, divergent, 5-10 mm long; radicular tubercle prominent; seed horizontal; radicle ascending.
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Image source: fig. 170f 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. 254.
Distribution:
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Found on heavy slightly saline soil.
S.Aust.: LE, GT, FR, EA, EP, YP. N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: probably all months, especially April — Oct.
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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:
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Author:
Not yet available
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