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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Araliaceae
Uldinia

Citation: J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 46:568 (1922).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Procumbent, ascending or erect annual, usually with a purplish tinge; tap-root slender; stem usually branched from near the base, branches often spreading-ascending; leaves petiolate, palmatisect, mostly basal; petioles broadened and fimbriate at the base.

Umbels simple, few-flowered; involucral bracts small, irregularly lobed or entire, pubescent; sepals minute; petals spreading.

Fruit laterally compressed; carpophore absent; mericarps with recurved retrorsely barbellate prickles and the intermediate ribs towards the apex with a horizontally spreading vertical wing-like hard appendage; vittae absent or indistinct and only in the ribs.

Distribution:  Endemic to southern Australia, 1 species. (Theobald (1967) Anatomy and systematic position of Uldinia (Umbelliferae), Brittonia 19:165-173.)

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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