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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:  S.Aust.: LE, GT, FR, EA.   Qld; N.S.W.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


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