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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Caryophyllaceae
Stellaria multiflora

Citation: Hook., Compan. Bot. Mag. 1:275 (1836).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Rayless starwort.

Description:
Annual glabrous herb with several stems, prostrate or ascending, usually less than 30 cm long; leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, c. 5 mm long.

Flowers in leaf axils; peduncles 1-3 cm long; sepals lanceolate, 3-nerved, with conspicuously scarious margins, 4-5 mm long; petals absent; stamens 5-10; styles 3.

Capsule as long as or rather longer than the sepals; seeds few to 20, reddish-brown, c. 1 mm diam., granular.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Sept. — Oct.


SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: Specimens from dry areas have very much shorter peduncles than those from wetter areas.

Author: Not yet available


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