Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 29: 385 (1833) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Native
Suberect or ascending annual herb to c. 15 cm high, glabrous, often somewhat glaucous. Leaves subopposite or opposite, sessile or with petioles to 1.5 mm long; lamina spathulate to obovate, 6–12 mm long, 1–4 mm wide, obtuse to rounded, usually shortly apiculate, margins flat to recurved; stipules entire, membranous, 0.8–1.3 mm long. Inflorescences of short racemes, 0.3–0.8 cm across; rachis usually elongating after anthesis; bracts narrow-obovate, to c. 4 mm long. Pedicels to c. 1.5 mm long, those of females elongating to c. 9 mm in fruit. Sepals usually 5, obovate, 0.5–1.5 mm long, white, green or pink. Petals oblanceolate, to c. 0.5 mm long, white or pink. Male flowers with 5 stamens, filaments free; female flowers with 3 deeply 2-partite styles. Capsule 1.5–2.5 mm diam., 3-lobed; seeds wedge-shaped, 0.5–1 mm long, tuberculate, white. Flowers mostly Sep.–Apr.
Brid, CVU, DunT, EGL, EGU, GipP, Glep, Gold, GGr, HFE, HNF, HSF, LoM, MonT, MuM, NIS, OtP, OtR, SnM, Strz, VAlp, VRiv, VVP, WaP, WPro, Wim. All states. New Zealand. Widespread and often locally common throughout most of the state in a wide variety of habitats from near sea-level to subalps, but generally replaced by P. oreophila at higher altitudes.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Lowan Mallee | present | native | |
Murray Mallee | present | native | |
Wimmera | present | native | |
Glenelg Plain | present | native | |
Bridgewater | present | native | |
Victorian Volcanic Plain | present | native | |
Victorian Riverina | present | native | |
Gippsland Plain | present | native | |
Otway Plain | present | native | |
Warrnambool Plain | present | native | |
Goldfields | present | native | |
Central Victorian Uplands | present | native | |
Greater Grampians | present | native | |
Dundas Tablelands | present | native | |
Northern Inland Slopes | present | native | |
East Gippsland Lowlands | present | native | |
East Gippsland Uplands | present | native | |
Wilsons Promontory | present | native | |
Highlands-Southern Fall | present | native | |
Highlands-Northern Fall | present | native | |
Otway Ranges | present | native | |
Strzelecki Ranges | present | native | |
Monaro Tablelands | present | native | |
Highlands-Far East | present | native | |
Victorian Alps | present | native | |
Snowy Mountains | present | native |
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Western Australia |
Northern Territory |
South Australia |
Queensland |
New South Wales |
Australian Capital Territory |
Victoria |
Tasmania |