Family: Zygophyllaceae
Zygophyllum crassissimum
Citation:
Ising, Trans. R.Soc. S. Aust. 81:167, figs 10-14 (1958).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Erect perennial glaucous subshrub with a thick stem and thick spreading branches, c. 40-60 cm high; leaves very fleshy; leaflets very broad, obliquely obovate-cuneate, to 4 cm long, appearing continuous with a very short 2-6 (rarely to 10)mm long petiole (articulation not visible when fresh), glaucous.
sepals 4, ovate, c. 3-6 mm long, acuminate; petals 4, obovate-cuneate, 6-7 (rarely to 9) mm long, yellow; stamens 8; filaments winged in the lower part; wings entire.
Capsule broad-oblong, 10-17 mm long and almost as wide, 4-angled, loculicidal, drooping; seeds 1 or 2 in each cell.
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Image source: fig 393f in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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Gypseous flats and rocky rises.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: June — Oct.
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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:
No text
Taxonomic notes:
A collection of plants with deep orange petals from NW may belong here.-Z. crassissimum is closely allied with Z. glaucum, a species the wide variation of which is as yet poorly understood.
Author:
Not yet available
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