Family: Zygophyllaceae
Zygophyllum howittii
Citation:
F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 3:150 (1863).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Clasping twinleaf
Description:
Spreading, erect or prostrate annual, all vegetative parts usually glaucous and purplish-tinged; leaflets short, obtuse, continuous with the broad petioles so that the leaf appears cuneate, broadly .2-lobed; leaves of upper pairs connate at the base and encircling the stem.
Flowers small; pedicels slender; sepals 4, usually purplish outside; petals 3, obovate to oblanceolate, c. 2.5 mm long, scarcely exceeding the sepals, yellow; stamens 6; filaments not winged; disk glands 3, almost orbicular; ovary 3-celled.
Fruit indehiscent, vertically 3-winged; wings faintly reticulate, usually purplish-tinged; by abortion only 1 fusiform-trigonous seed developing in each fruit.
Published illustration:
Cunningham el al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 441, fig. 53h.
Distribution:
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Mainly on red sand dunes.
N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: May — Nov.
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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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