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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Aizoaceae
Drosanthemum candens

Citation: Schwantes, Z. Sukk. 3:30 (1927).

Synonymy: Mesembryanthemum candens Haw., Saxifrag. Enum. 2:186 (1821); D. floribundum sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 338 (1948), non (Haw.)Schwantes.

Common name: Rodondo creeper.

Description:
Stems slender, prostrate, often rather long and trailing; branches and peduncles covered with short spreading bristles; leaves cylindrical-clavate, often incurved, 5-15 mm long, c. 3 mm broad.

Flowers c. 2-2.5 cm diam., terminating short branches, on peduncles rather longer than the leaves; perianth and ovary papillose, both c. 3 mm long, the ovary turbinate; petaloid staminodes twice as long as the perianth lobes; styles nearly as long as the stamens.

image of FSA1_Drosanthemum_can.jpg cw = cell wings, pl = placenta
Image source: fig. 109 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Widely grown as a garden ornamental and naturalised, or occurring as an escape, in S.Aust.

S.Aust.: SL.   W.Aust.; Vic.   Native to South Africa.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: spring.


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