Family: Fabaceae
Petalostylis labicheoides
Citation:
R. Br. in Sturt, Exped. Centr. Aust., Bot. App. 79 (1849).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Butterfly bush, slender petaloslylis.
Description:
Erect shrub, 2-3 m high; stems often pruinose; tomentum of sparse minute appressed simple hairs; leaflets 5-15, lanceolate-elliptic, mucronate.
Flowers 1-5, in short racemes, each with a pair of linear bracts; sepals 5, acute; petals 5, obovate, shortly clawed, deep-yellow, 1 marked with red; style yellow, winged, petal-like.
Pod flat, obliquely oblong, elastically deshiscent; seeds 4-6, shining, mottled light- and dark-brown, with a small cap-like aril.
Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 383.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: LE, FR, EA. W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: in early summer, Sept. — Nov.
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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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Author:
Not yet available
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