Family: Amaranthaceae
Dissocarpus fontinalis
Citation:
Paul G. Wilson, Fl. Aust. 4:325 (1984).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Rounded perennial to 60 cm high; branches slender, closely woolly; leaves slender, semiterete, c. 10 mm long, woolly.
Flowers connate in groups of 8-12 in dense axillary woolly clusters; perianth narrow-cylindrical, the upper third divided into erect narrowly triangular lobes,
Infructescence a persistent woody ball from which emerge the narrowly cylindrical upper portions of the perianth and between them irregularly shaped flattened or spine-like emergences to 3 mm long, all covered with a thick floccose indumentum, in all c. 15 mm diam.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: LE, GT, FR, EA. Qld; N.S.W.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
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:
Not yet available
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