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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Aizoaceae
Gunniopsis tenuifolia

Citation: Chinn., J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 6:152 (1983).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial rounded glabrous shrub to 1 m high; branchlets compressed, tinged red; leaves terete, minutely papillose, villous hairs at base, yellow-green, 8-62 x 0.5-2 mm.

Flowers in cymes; pedicels 12-15 mm long; perianth-segments yellowish inside, equal in length, 6-16 mm long (incl. ovary), free almost to the base; stamens clustered in 4 groups which alternate with the segments; filaments terete, papillose.

Capsules with 2-fid valves, 3.5-6.5 mm across; seeds comma-shaped, laterally compressed, minutely and densely papillose, dark-brown to black.

image of FSA1_Gunniopsis_ten.jpg
Image source: fig. 113g in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, FR.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Aug. — Jan.


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