Ballantinia antipoda

(F.Muell.) E.A.Shaw

Contr. Gray Herb. 205: 161 (1974)

Taxonomic status Accepted

Occurrence status Present

Origin Native

Degree of establishment Native

Threat status

FFG: Critically Endangered

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EPBC: Endangered

Prostrate or weakly ascending, to 10 cm high; hairs simple or branched. Basal leaves petiolate, to 3 cm long, 1 (rarely 2)-pinnate with 1–5 linear to obovate segments; stem leaves reducing to toothed or entire. Sepals c. 1.5 mm long; petals 2–2.5 mm long. Fruit erect to spreading, slightly compressed at right-angles to septum, 3–5 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide; pedicels erect to spreading, 4–10 mm long. Flowers winter–spring.

VVP, OtP, Gold, CVU. Also Tas. (where now extinct). Known previously from dry stony areas of west-central Victoria but presumed extinct until rediscovered in 1983 near Castlemaine.

Characterised by its hairy, pinnate rosette leaves and the small ellipsoid fruits with a complete septum and few seeds.

Known in Tasmania only from the type collection on the Macquarie Plains, where apparently now extinct.

Source:

Entwisle, T.J. (1996). Brassicaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., ‍Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae‍, pp. 399–459. Inkata Press, Melbourne.

Updated by: Andre Messina, 17 Aug. 2023