Nuytsia 12: 246 (1998) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Native
Shrub to c. 50 cm high; branchlets with dark, stipule-like excrescences and large oil glands, with hairs in narrow grooves between leaf decurrencies. Leaves c. terete, or obovate and flat or concave. Inflorescences terminal, 1–4-flowered, each pedicel without an obvious peduncle. Flowers 5-merous; sepals c. deltoid, c. 1 mm long; petals ovate, 5–8 mm long, white, usually with pink midrib, minutely pilose to glabrous inside, glabrous outside, persisting in fruit; anthers not glandular beneath white apiculum; ovary pilose in upper half, carpels free for most of their length. Follicles shortly beaked, c. 3 mm long; seed subreniform, c. 2.5 mm long.
CVU, DunT, Gold, GGr, LoM, MuM, VRiv, Wim.
2 subspecies, both in Victoria.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Lowan Mallee | present | native | |
Murray Mallee | present | native | |
Wimmera | present | native | |
Victorian Riverina | present | native | |
Goldfields | present | native | |
Central Victorian Uplands | present | native | |
Greater Grampians | present | native | |
Dundas Tablelands | present | native |
State |
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South Australia |
Queensland |
New South Wales |
Victoria |