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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Rosaceae
Acaena novae-zelandiae

Citation: -zelandiae, Kirk, Trans. N.Z. Inst. 3:177(1871).

Synonymy: A. sanguisorbae sensu J. Black, Fl.S. Aust. 398 (1948), non (L.f.) Vahl; A. anserinifolia sensu Jessop, List Vasc. Pl. S. Aust. edn 2:25(1984), non (Forster & Forster f.) Druce. , Ancistrum anserinaefolium

Common name: Bidgee-widgee, biddy biddy.

Description:
Stems often procumbent and rooting; leaves ovate, with 3 or 4 pairs of leaflets, usually 5-9 cm long (including petiole), glabrous or variously hairy especially below.

Flowers in globular heads on long terminal peduncles; sepals usually 4; stamens 2, creamy.

Fruiting receptacle obconical, narrow, 4-ribbed, villous, 5-6 mm long, with 4 slender glabrous subequal spines 6-10 mm long.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 344.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   New Zealand.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Sept. — Dec.


SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: Miss B. H. Macmillan (DSIR, New Zealand) considers this to be A. novae-zelandiae Kirk and A. anserinifolia to be restricted to New Zealand (in a letter of 4 June 1985). This proposal has not been investigated.

Author: Not yet available


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