Family: Amaranthaceae
Rhagodia drummondii
Citation:
Moq. in A. DC., Prod. 13, 2:52 (1849).
Synonymy: Chenopodium drummondii Common name: None
Description:
Open often scrambling shrub to 1.5 m high; leaves opposite or alternate, somewhat fleshy, narrow-elliptic to elliptic, shortly petiolate; lamina 7-10 rarely to 15 mm long, 2-3 rarely to 4 mm wide, acute, glabrescent above, densely mealy below with grey saucer-shaped vesicular hairs.
Inflorescences spicate or paniculate, to 2.5 cm long; perianth densely mealy; male flowers: staminal filaments united into a fleshy disc which is woolly within; female: terminal flowers with minute staminodes and a disc, slightly woolly; lateral flowers glabrous within, lacking staminodes and a disc.
Fruiting perianth eventually spreading, pale-fawn or red within; seed c. 1.8 mm diam., faintly radially rugulose.
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Image source: fig. 164c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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in somewhat saline soil around salt lakes.
S.Aust.: NW. W.Aust..
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: not available.
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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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