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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

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.

image of FSA1_Sclerolaena_cal.jpg Sclerolaena calcarata fruit
Image source: fig. 169g in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Found on heavy soil.

S.Aust.: NW, LE, EA.   N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: April — Sept.


SA Distribution Map based
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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: Not yet available


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