Family: Polygalaceae
Polygala monspeliaca
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 702 (1753).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Annual milkwort.
Description:
Erect annual, 40-260 cm tall; stems few, simple or sparsely branched; lower leaves 5-30 cm long, lanceolate, long-acuminate, sometimes deciduous; stem leaves 5-25 cm long, linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate.
Inflorescence racemose; bracts shorter than the pedicels, deciduous in bud; flowers whitish, c. 8 mm long; wing sepals lanceolate-ovate, c. 6-7 mm long, acuminate, with 3 distinct greenish nerves, their branches not anastomosing; keel c. 4 mm long, crested with 2 much-branched appendages; lateral petals as long as the keel; stamens 8; filaments united for about three-quarters of their length.
Capsule obovate, emarginate, broadly winged; seeds oblong, hairy.
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Image source: fig 418c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: SE. Vic. native of the Mediterranean region.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Oct. — Dec.
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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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