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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Aizoaceae
Trianthema pilosa

Citation: F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 1:174 (1859).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Villous plant with branches to c. 40 cm long, the hairs on the leaves and flowers longer than those on the stems; leaves obovate or oblanceolate, 4-20 mm long, narrowed into a petiole 4-12 mm long.

Flowers 6-7 mm long; perianth villous outside; the lobes lanceolate, 2-3 mm long, white often tinged pink; stamens c. 20; style as long as the ovary.

Capsule cylindrical in the upper part, truncate and hollowed at the summit, enclosed in the perianth, c. 3 mm long.

image of FSA1_Trianthema_pil.jpg flower and bract; flower and pistil
Image source: fig. 121 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: mainly May — Aug.


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