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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.

image of FSA1_Malacocera_bif.jpg Malacocera biflora twig, enlargement of portion of twig and fruiting perianth
Image source: fig. 161b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: R.J. Chinnock (1980) J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 2:144.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: Aug. — Oct.


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