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Family: Amaranthaceae
Dysphania kalpari

Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 4:195 (1983).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Kalpari.

Description:
Prostrate to decumbent annual with several stems arising from the base, moderately pilose with sessile or shortly stipitate glandular hairs and larger simple hairs, aromatic; leaves elliptic, deeply undulate; lamina 1-5 cm long; petiole half the length of the lamina.

Inflorescence of erect slender spikes to 15 cm long, composed of 5-7-flowered clusters; flowers bisexual and female; perianth-segments 4, erect, obovate, c. 1 mm long, united below, rounded on the back, hirtellous; stamen 0 or 1; styles 2.

Seed vertical, compressed-spherical, with rounded margins, c. 0.5 mm diam.; testa glossy; embryo semicircular, basal; radicle and cotyledons superior; infructescence breaking up at the apex of the pedicels, with the seed enclosed in the perianth.

image of FSA1_Dysphania_kal.jpg Dysphania kalpari
Image source: fig. 155h-i in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 262, as Chenopodium rhadinostachyum.

Distribution:  Usually found on loam flats and red sand plains, often associated with mulga (Acacia aneura).

S.Aust.: NW, LE.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: May — Sept.


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