Family: Caryophyllaceae
Stellaria pungens
Citation:
Brongn. in Duperrey, Voy. la Coquille 16:t. 78 (1834).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Prickly starwort.
Description:
Perennial herbs; stems to c. 55 cm long, ascending, branched, usually clothed with curly hairs; leaves linear-lanceolate, sessile, rigid, pungent-pointed, complicate, 5-14 mm long, spreading, often clustered.
Peduncles solitary, axillary, 1-4 cm long; sepals rigid, pungent-pointed, 3-nerved, 5-8 mm long; petals white or pink, about as long as the sepals, 2-fid; stamens usually 8, sometimes 6; styles 3 rarely 4.
Capsule 3- or 4-valved; seeds c. 8, suborbicular, brown, c. 1.5 mm diam.
Published illustration:
Burbidge & Gray (1970) Flora of the A. C T., fig. 150.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: SL, SE. Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Oct. — Dec.
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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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