Family: Elaeocarpaceae
Tetratheca ciliata
Citation:
Lindley in T.L. Mitchell, Three Exped. Int.eastern Austral. 2:205 (1838).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Pink-bells.
Description:
Slender shrub to 1 m high, usually weak-stemmed and straggling, with several branches arising from an often stout base; stems irregularly vertically ridged, occasionally glabrous though tuberculate but usually with dense hairs spreading and of various lengths in one area; branching alternate or occasionally opposite; leaves alternate, opposite or often in irregular whorls of 3, rarely 4 or 5, very variable, narrowly elliptic to orbicular, usually tapering at the base, 15-20 mm long and to 15 mm wide, often narrower and smaller in the flowering region where they may be as small as c. 2 mm long by c. 1 mm wide; margins flat or recurved usually undulate; petiole c. 1 mm long.
Flowers single or 2 or 3 together; peduncles 3-9 or rarely to 12 mm long; sepals 4, strongly reflexed, 1.5-3 mm long; petals 4, dark- or pale-pink or occasionally white, obovate to oblong, 6-18 mm long and from one-third to half as wide; stamens 8; body of anther glabrous or with some short stiff hairs, tapering into a short tube with a rather broad orifice; ovary densely covered with short white hairs rarely almost glabrous; ovules 2 in each cell, attached in pairs above the centre of the axis; capsule very variable, obovate to broadly obovate, 4-10 mm long by 4-6 mm wide, apex emarginate or beaked; seeds obovoid, 2-3 mm long, brown, shining.
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Image source: fig 416a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Beck & Foster (1972) Wildflowers of South Australia.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: SE. N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Aug, — Nov.
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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:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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