Family: Urticaceae
Soleirolia soleirolii
Citation:
Dandy in Heyw., Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 70:4 (1965).
Synonymy: Helxine soleirolii Req., Annls Sci. nat., sér. 1, 5:384 (1825); Parietaria soleirolii (Req.)Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 4, app. 318 (1827).
Common name: Babys tears, mind-your-own-business.
Description:
Stems herbaceous-succulent, 5-30 cm long, sparsely puberulent; leaves suborbicular and strongly oblique to subreniform, on petioles to 3 mm long; the blade subsucculent, 3-nerved, c. 2-6 mm diam.
Flowers shortly pedunculate, to c. 2 mm long; female perianth tubular, 4- or 5-lobed when viewed from above, enclosed by the bract and bracteoles; male flower of 4 segments and 4 stamens.
Perianth in fruit with 4 or 5 thick wings; achene ellipsoid, smooth, c. 1 mm long.
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Image source: fig. 63 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Image source: fig. 63 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: SL, SE. N.S.W.; Vic. Native to the islands of the western Mediterranean, cultivated and occasionally naturalised.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
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
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Biology:
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Author:
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| fruiting perianth
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Image source: fig. 63 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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