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Electronic Flora of South Australia infraspecific Fact Sheet

Family: Caryophyllaceae
Stellaria palustris var. palustris

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Creeping perennial, entirely glabrous; stems weak, quadrangular, to c. 60 cm long; leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, sessile, 1-4 cm long.

Peduncles 1-7 cm long; sepals lanceolate, acute, 4-10 mm long, 3-nerved; petals equalling or up to twice as long as the sepals, deeply 2-fid.

Capsule shorter than the calyx; seeds c. 12, brown, c. 1 mm diam.

Distribution:    ?Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   If correctly identified, native to Europe, but may be native to Australia (see under species) and then correctly named S. angustifolia.

Flowering time: No flowering time is available

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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