Family: Amaranthaceae
Dysphania platycarpa
Citation:
Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 4:187 (1983).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Prostrate annual to 20 cm diam., with many stems arising from the base, sparsely pilosulose with simple or glandular hairs; leaves elliptic, obtuse, almost glabrous; lamina 5-10 mm long; petiole more or less equal to the lamina.
Inflorescence of axillary glomerules c. 2.5 mm diam. in fruit; terminal flower of each glomerule bisexual; perianth-segments 3, free, prominently hooded, with a filiform claw; stamens 2; styles 2, very short; lateral flowers female; perianth-segments 1 or 2, in fruit with a white inflated limb and filamentous claw, in all c. 0.7 mm long.
Pericarp adherent, minutely granulate; seed erect, obovate to deltoid, flat, c. 0.4 mm long, slightly twisted or with sunken faces; embryo lateral, radicle inferior; infructescence breaking up into separate perianth-segments and fruits.
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Image source: fig. 155a-c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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Found in clay by freshwater.
S.Aust.: LE, NU, GT, EA. W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Jan. — Aug.
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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:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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