Family: Santalaceae
Choretrum spicatum
Citation:
F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 1:21 (1858).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Spiked sour-bush, berry broombush.
Description:
Relatively sparsely branched virgate shrub usually to 1 m but occasionally to 2 m high; nodes much less spaced than in the other species; branches often apparently whorled, more or less erect, rigid, many-ridged; leaves narrow-lanceolate to ovate-attenuate, 2-3 mm long, often partly ciliate, the points spreading and then caducous.
Flowers subsessile, forming 2-5 cm long spike-like racemes along the final or penultimate branches, solitary, white, c. 1.5 mm long, enclosed at the base by 8-10 broad brown ciliate bracts; receptacle c. 1 mm long; anthers subsessile, c. 0.3 mm long; style c. 0.3 mm long.
Drupes globular to broadly obovoid, 3-4 mm diam., reddish.
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Image source: fig. 82d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Sept. — Dec.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Taxonomic notes:
The suggestion made by Stauffer in Eichler (1965), Suppl. 98, that the mainland and KI plants may belong to different species has not been explored.
Author:
Not yet available
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