Family: Amaranthaceae
Ptilotus robynsianus
Citation:
Benl, Bull. Jard. Bot. Bruxelles 27:365, fig. 34 (1957); Mitt. Bot. München 3:512 (1960).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Perennial shrubby plant with stems more or less flexuose, densely hoary-tomentose with substellate and dendroid hairs; leaves elliptic or obovate, distinctly mucronate, shortly petiolate, passing above into bracts.
Spikes hemispherical (1-1.2 cm diam.), few-flowered, forming a loose panicle; bract and bracteoles brownish, inconspicuous, bract lanceolate, 3-3.8 x c. 0.8 mm, shortly villous at the base, bracteoles subcordate, 2.8-3.5 X 2-2.5 mm, with a hairy keel; perianth purplish, sparsely pilose except the densely hirsute outer face of the tube; perianth-segments all linear-acute, 5-6.5 x c. 1.2 mm, exceptionally divided into deep lobes; stamens 1 or 2 perfect, 1 or 2 staminodes sometimes hairy, purplish, suggesting reduced perianth-segments, cup glabrous; ovary c. 1.5 x 1 mm, short-stalked, shortly biserially pilose toward the summit; style c. 3 mm, glabrous.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: FR. collections in Berlin and Bruxelles.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Oct. (2 records).
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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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