Family: Caryophyllaceae
Scleranthus minusculus
Citation:
F. Muell., Victorian Nat. 7:66 (1890).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Cushion knawel.
Description:
Probably annual, to c. 5 cm high; leaves linear, rigid and slightly pungent, c. 10 mm long.
Flowers on short but distinct pedicels, few in sessile axillary and terminal clusters; fruiting calyx c. 4 mm long; the calyx lobes lanceolate, green, and longer than the tube; stamens 2, bract linear.
Capsule conical; seeds c. 0.9 mm long, c. 0.5 mm wide.
Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of Western New South Wales, p. 304.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: EP, MU. N.S.W.; Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Aug. — 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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