Family: Amaranthaceae
Sclerolaena holtiana
Citation:
A.J. Scott, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 89:113 (1978).
Synonymy: Bassia holtiana Ising, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 78:111 (1955); B. eichleri Ising, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 84:96 (1961); S. eichleri (Ising) A.J. Scott, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 89:112 (1978); B. wilsonii Ising, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 88:80 (1964); S. wilsonii (Ising)A.J. Scott, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 89:114 (1978).
Common name: None
Description:
Perennial to 20 cm high; branches tomentose; leaves linear, c. 10 mm long, fleshy, silky, pilose.
Flowers solitary; perianth tomentose; stamens 5.
Fruiting perianth very closely white-tomentose, somewhat ribbed on the abaxial face; tube subglobular, gibbous, c. 2.5 mm high and wide including the deeply hollowed base, adaxial surface very convex, abaxial surface almost flat; attachment elliptic, c. 3 mm long; limb incurved and inconspicuous; spines 2, lateral, slender, to 7 mm long, divergent, sometimes very reduced; radicular tubercle inconspicuous, adjacent to a spine; seed oblique to erect or rarely horizontal.
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Image source: fig. 170b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
E. H. Ising (1955) Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 78:116, figs 17-19.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, MU. N.T.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: 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:
No text
Taxonomic notes:
Not clearly distinguishable from the S. diacantha-S, uniflora complex.
Author:
Not yet available
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