Family: Amaranthaceae
Malacocera biflora
Citation:
Ising, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 78:113 (1955).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Small shrub to 25cm high; branches slender, white-woolly; leaves slender, semiterete, acuminate, 5-12 rarely to 25 mm long, white- to brown-villous.
Flowers in pairs in the leaf axils, densely woolly.
Fruiting perianth very depressed; processes flat, narrow-triangular, densely woolly, 3 major c. 1.5 mm long and forming a Y configuration, 1 or 2 minor ones sometimes also present.
| Malacocera biflora twig, enlargement of portion of twig and fruiting perianth
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Image source: fig. 161b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
R.J. Chinnock (1980) J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 2:144.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: LE.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: Aug. — Oct.
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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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