Family: Campanulaceae
Wahlenbergia fluminalis
Citation:
E. Wimmer ex H. Etchlet, Taxon 12:297 (1963).
Synonymy: Cephalostigma fluminale J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 58:184 (1934).
Common name: River bluebell.
Description:
Perennial tufted herbs with a fleshy rootstock, glabrous; stems 5-80 cm long, branching below the inflorescence; leaves alternate, 4-60 mm long, 0.5-5 mm wide, linear throughout or the lowermost oblanceolate, margins flat or sometimes undulate.
Inflorescence a terminal cyme; receptacle 1-3 mm long, hemispherical or obconical; sepals 5, 1-3 mm long, narrowly triangular, acute; corolla blue, rotate; tube 0.5-1.5 mm long, funnel-shaped; lobes 5, 3-9 mm long, more than 4 times as long as the tube, broadly elliptical; stamens 5; filaments c. l mm long, rhombic with protuberant shoulders; anthers c. 1 mm long; ovary 3-celled; style 2.5-4 mm long, 3-fid, contracted just below the stigmatic lobes by more than half its width, with 1 or 2 glands below each stigmatic cleft.
Capsule 2-5 mm long, hemispherical or obconical.
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Image source: fig. 627c 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 Neu, South Wales, p. 628.
Distribution:
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Common on river banks and flood plains beside the River Murray and its tributaries.
S.Aust.: MU, SE. Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: throughout the year.
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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:
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