Family: Apiaceae
Xanthosia pusilla
Citation:
Bunge in Lehm., Pl. Preiss. 1:291 (1845).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Heath xanthosia.
Description:
Dwarf tufted prostrate undershrub, villous with spreading barbellate hairs; tap-root with numerous procumbent stems, 4-15 cm long, branching densely; leaves petiolate, villous; leaf blades 3-sect or 3-foliolate and some simple and linear-lanceolate; segments or leaflets entire, linear-lanceolate, 6-15 mm long; petiole short, c. 6 mm long, broad, channelled above.
Umbels simple, sessile and leaf-opposed or very shortly pedunculate, 3-6-flowered, with 3-6 linear-lanceolate hirsute involucral bracts, 4-5 mm long, much exceeding the flowers; sepals erect, narrow-triangular, c. 2 mm long, acute, persistent, becoming almost as long as the fruit; petals narrow.
Fruit oblong, 3-4 mm long, c. 3 mm broad; primary and often also secondary ribs of mericarps prominent.
Distribution:
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In coastal heath and woodland on sand.
W.Aust.; Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Sept. — Oct.
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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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