Family: Araliaceae
Trachymene anisocarpa
Citation:
B.L. Burtt, J. Bot., Lond. 79:44 (1941).
Synonymy: Didiscus pilosus Benth. in Endl., Enum. Pl. Hügel 54 (1837); Dimetopia anisocarpa Turcz., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 22, 2:29 (1849); Didiscus anisocarpa (Turcz.)F. Muell., Pap. & Proc. R. Soc. Van Diemen's Land 3:238 (1860); T. australis Benth., Fl. Aust. 3:349 (1867), nom. illegit.; Didiscus benthamii Domin, Sber. Boehm. Ges. Wiss. Prag 1908, 10:39 (1908), nom illegit.
Common name: Parsnip trachymene, native parsnip.
Description:
Stout erect annual or biennial, 30-120 cm high; tap-root stout; stem finely grooved, erect, branched, leafy, bearing several to many umbels; leaves 2-10 cm long, palmatisect into 3 cuneate incised or lobed segments, sparsely hairy beneath; petioles rather shorter, hispid, dilated and ciliate-fringed at the base.
peduncles 3-8 cm long, sometimes 2 or 3 together forming an irregularly compound umbel; umbels 2-3 cm diam., many-flowered, sometimes numerous; involucral bracts narrow-lanceolate to subulate, ciliate, usually shorter than the pedicels; petals white.
Mericarps very flat but not winged, 4-5 mm long, 3-4 mm broad, minutely tuberculate, one usually smaller than the other, rarely aborted; dorsal rib sometimes grooved so as to appear minutely 2-winged; lateral ribs slender and curved.
Published illustration:
J.D. Hooker (1840) Hook. Ic. 4:t. 307.
Distribution:
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W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: not available.
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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
Taxonomic notes:
The identity of the plants occurring in S.Aust. at present referred to this species needs examination in connection with a revision of this variable complex of closely allied taxa. (Jacobs & Pickard (1981) Plants of New South Wales, p. 67, list the N.S.W. representative of this alliance as 'T. sp.'; the distribution mentioned above appears uncertain. Cf. also Willis (1973) A handbook to plants in Victoria, 2:485.)
Author:
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