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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Fabaceae
Muelleranthus

Citation: Hutch., Gen. Fl. Pl. 1:361 (1964).

Derivation: After F. Mueller, Australian botanist; Greek anthos, flower.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Prostrate herbs or subshrubs with a tap root, pubescent; stems slender, radiating to 60 (or more) cm; leaves digitately 3-foliolate; stipules conspicuous.

Flowers 1-3 in erect leaf-opposed racemes; bracts and bracteoles small; calyx 2-lipped but not always clearly; hypanthium not clearly differentiated from the tube; petals clawed; stamens all joined in a sheath open adaxially, with uniform anthers; ovary shortly stipitate, 6-8- rarely to 10-ovulate, style glabrous, with a terminal stigma.

Pod stalked, compressed; seeds exarillate.

Distribution:  Endemic in Australia with 3 species.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:
1. Stipules very broad-ovate, 3-6 x 2-4 mm; flowers 4-6 mm long; wings dark-purple, sometimes yellowish towards the base
M. stipularis 1.
1. Stipules ovate or narrowly so, 1.5-3 x 0.7-12 mm; flowers-7-15 mm long; wings rich-yellow
M. trifoliolatus 2.

Author: Not yet available


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