Cyanothamnus polygalifolius
(Sm.) Duretto & HeslewoodTaxon 69: 494 (2020)
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Establishment means
Native
Degree of establishment
Native
Glabrous, decumbent subshrub, often several-branched from near base, branches to c. 30 cm long; stems not conspicuously glandular. Leaves sessile or subsessile, simple, narrow-elliptic, 8–25 mm long, 1.5–5 mm wide, acute, distinctly discolorous, margins often recurved. Inflorescence axillary, 1(–3)-flowered; pedicels 1–10 mm long. Sepals deltoid, c. 1 mm long, valvate, glabrous, green; petals 4.5–6.5 mm long, pale to mid pink, imbricate, midrib not raised; stamens 8 with pilose filaments pilose; stigma not strongly demarcated from style. Follicles glabrous, ripe fruit not seen. Flowers spring.
EGL. Also Qld, NSW. Known in Victoria from a single 2014 collection from damp lowland forest between Nowa Nowa and Orbost.
Created by: Neville
Walsh,
26 May 2016
Updated by: Andre
Messina,
19 Aug. 2021
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Cyanothamnus polygalifolius
(Sm.) Duretto & Heslewood
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