Family: Fabaceae
Petalostylis cassioides
Citation:
Symon in Jessop, Fl. Cent. Aust. 105 (1981).
Synonymy: Petalogyne cassioides F. Muell., Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 8:324-325 (1856); Petalostylis labicheoides R. Br. vat. cassioides Benth., Fl. Aust. 2:292 (1864); P. labicheoides R. Br. var. microphylla Ewart & Morrison (cf. Ewart & O.B. Davies ( 1917), Fl. North. Terr. 132); P. spinescens E. Pritzel, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 15:357 (1918).
Common name: None
Description:
Spreading shrub to 1.5 m, with a sparse or abundant tomentum of erect or appressed simple hairs; leaflets 23-55, obovate, mostly emarginate, sometimes mucronate.
Flowers 1-3 in short racemes, each subtended by a pair of linear bracts; sepals 5, acute; petals 5, obovate, shortly clawed, deep-yellow, 1 marked with red.
Pod flat, obliquely oblong, elastically dehiscent; seeds 4-6, with a rounded cap-like aril.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NW. W.Aust.: N.T.; Qld.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Aug. — Sept.
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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:
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