Family: Amaranthaceae
Sclerolaena calcarata
Citation:
A.J. Scott, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 89:111 (1978).
Synonymy: Bassia calcarata Ising, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 88:102 (1964).
Common name: Red copperburr, redburr.
Description:
Rounded perennial branching from the base, c. 25 cm high, glabrous to pilose; leaves slender, terete, 5-10 mm long, fleshy.
Flowers solitary, glabrous; stamens 5.
Fruiting perianth oblong (somewhat dorsiventrally compressed), c. 2 mm long, 10-ribbed, glabrous or with a pubescent limb, produced at the base into 2 spurs; attachment broadly elliptic, slightly hollowed, oblique; spines 4 q- 2, 1-4 mm long, spreading, the collateral pair borne on a short radicular tubercle; limb small, membranous, erect, in the slightly sunken apex; seed vertical, radicle erect.
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Image source: fig. 169g in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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Found on heavy soil.
S.Aust.: NW, LE, EA. N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: April — Sept.
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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
Taxonomic notes:
S. murrayae (Ising)A.J. Scott, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 89:113 (1978) is probably a hybrid involving S. calcarata.--Bassia murrayae Ising, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 88:103 (1964).
Author:
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