Family: Amaranthaceae
Ptilotus incanus
Citation:
Poiret, Encycl. Suppl. 4:620 (1816).
Synonymy: Ptilotus helmsii, Ptilotus incanus, Ptilotus obovatus, Trichinium gnaphalodes, Trichinium incanum Common name: None
Description:
Shrubs and undershrubs with ascending to erect stems, hirsute with stellate and projecting dendroid hairs like on the foliage; leaves lanceolate-ovate, short-petiolate.
Spikes sessile or shortly pedunculate; bract ovate to broad-lanceolate, hairy, bracteoles somewhat shorter; perianth-segments with finely verticillate dorsal hairs longer in the upper half, overtopping or not the apices c. 3 mm long and denticulately obtuse in the outer segments, inner segments faintly woolly within; filaments often hairy towards the base, staminal cup adnate to the hard perianth tube; ovary mostly glabrous, style eccentric, with some basal hairs.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NW.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
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
Key to Infraspecific taxa:
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1. Stem and leaf hairs very dense, dendroid hairs to 1.8 mm long; spikes 30-flowered and over |
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var. incanus 13a. |
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1. Stem and leaf hairs loose, dendroid ones to 2.5 mm long; spikes 5-8-flowered |
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var. parviflorus 13b. |
Author:
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