Family: Amaranthaceae
Rhagodia eremaea
Citation:
Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 4:232 (1983).
Synonymy: Chenopodium eremaeum Common name: None
Description:
Rounded shrub to 2 m high; leaves alternate; lamina ovate to elliptic, 0.5-1.5 cm long, glabrescent above and mealy below with minute irregularly shaped hairs; petiole about half the length of the lamina.
Inflorescence spicate to paniculate, with the flowers continuous along its branches; perianth densely mealy; male flowers caducous; perianth globular, c. 1.5 mm diam.; filaments united into a thick saucer-shaped disc pubescent within; female flower: perianth eventually hard and spreading beneath the fruit, red above; staminodes present in the terminal flower, absent in the others.
Seed c. 1.3 mm diam.; testa reticulate.
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Image source: fig. 164d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
G. F. Craig (1983) Pilbara coastal flora, p. 51.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT. W.Aust.; N.T.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: recorded mainly May — Oct.
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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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