*The Philosophical Magazine and Journal * 64: 427 (1824)
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Origin
Introduced
Degree of establishment
Naturalised
Procumbent perennial subshrub to c. 40 cm high; stems not jointed but retaining leaf-bases at nodes. Leaves terete, 4–15 mm long. Flowers usually numerous, often secund; pedicels 2–4 mm long (elongating in fruit); receptacle narrowly obconic; sepals 2–4 mm long, the outer 3 pointed and narrow, the inner obtuse and with broad membranous margins; petaloid staminodes white, shortly exceeding sepals. Capsule obovoid, half superior, 2–4 mm long and wide; keel of open locules with inflexed apical margins; seeds c. 0.8 mm long, minutely tuberculate. Flowers Sep.–Mar.
LoM, MuM, VVP, MSB, RobP, MuF. Also naturalised NT, SA, NSW. Locally common in mallee and floodplain communities, on heavy and sandy soils, with a recent disjunct collection from Gisborne.
A serious environmental weed.
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Aizoaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 105–119. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
