Family: Zygophyllaceae
Zygophyllum humillimum
Citation:
M. Koch, Trans. R.Soc. S. Aust. 24:82 (1900)
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Small prostrate annual; leaflets oblong- to obovate-cuneate, 5-10 mm long, emarginate.
Flowers small; pedicels very short, erect; sepals 4; petals 4, narrow-obovate, c. 3 mm long, slightly exceeding the sepals; stamens 8; filaments narrow-winged in the lower half; capsule drooping, globular-campanulate, 3-4 mm long, umbilicate at the apex, 4-angled, with a minute membranous appendage forming a slight comer at the upper part of each angle; seed 1 in each cell, very smooth, shining, blackishbrown.
| Zygophyllum humillimum leaf and fruit.
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Image source: fig 393k in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Jessop (1981) Flora of central Australia, fig. 207M.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: July — Sept.
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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:
On red-brown cracking clay and sandy loam with gypsum.
Author:
Not yet available
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