Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Native
Annual or semi-perennial herb, glabrous or scarous; stems weak, straggling to ascending, to 70 cm long. Leaves 10–40(–55) mm long, margin rarely recurved. Pedicles slender, (15–)20–72 mm long, erect in fruit. Sepals narrowly to broadly ovate or elliptic, (3.5–)4–8(–9) mm long, acute to acuminate; petals (3.5–)4–7.5(–9) mm long, bifid; stamens 10, filaments 3.3–6 mm long. Seeds 8–33, suborbicular to ellipsoid; tubercules narrow and flattened, and somewhat ridge-like.
MonT, MuF. SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. Widespread in swampy places from alpine swamps to the Murray River floodplain, and less frequently, near sea level in southern Victoria.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Murray Fans | present | native | |
Monaro Tablelands | present | native |
State |
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South Australia |
Queensland |
New South Wales |
Australian Capital Territory |
Victoria |
Tasmania |