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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Zygophyllaceae
Tribulus macrocarpus

Citation: F. Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Aust. 1:289 (1863).

Synonymy: Kallstroemia macrocarpa (F. Muell. ex Benth.)Engler, Natürl. Pflanzenfam. 3, 4:88 (1890).

Common name: None

Description:
Prostrate or ascending pubescent annual; leaves alternate, with 5-7 pairs of leaflets; leaflets oblong, 4-7 mm long.

Flowers c. 12 mm diam.; sepals c. 5 mm long; petals yellow, longer.

Fruit more or less globular, 18-23 mm long, 15-20 mm broad including 5 vertical wings, almost glabrous, separating along the wings into 5 cocci; wings transversely striate, c. 4 mm broad, rounded at the base and apex; cocci with a short spine one on each side of the prominent midrib between the wings; seeds c. 5 in each carpel.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE.   W.Aust.; N.T.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: April — Sept.


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