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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Fumaria muralis

Citation: Sonder ex Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ.& Helv. edn 2:1017 (1845).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Wall fumitory.

Description:
Delicate herb, with branches rarely broader than c. 2 mm, usually much-branched, with petiole usually absent from the cauline leaves.

Racemes about as long as the thread-like peduncle and with 7-15 flowers varying from densely clustered to more widely spaced; bracts c. 1.5 mm long, less than half the length of the flowering pedicels; sepals 2.5-3 x c. 1.5 mm, with one to several sharp teeth towards the base, pink; petals with a prominent spur 9-11 mm, rarely only c. 7 mm long, pink to blackish-red at the apices of the upper and lateral petals.

fruit on erect spreading pedicels, 2-2.5 mm diam., almost spherical and with a rounded apex, scarcely keeled, smooth or almost so.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1970) Flora of the A.C.T., fig. 170.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; N.T.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to Europe and North Africa.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: Most of the specimens recorded for S.Aust. must be identified as subsp. muralis while others should be referred to subsp. boraei but a number of specimens cannot be identified clearly below species level. P.D. Sell (1964) Fl. Europaea 1:257, distinguished the subspecies as follows:

Author: Not yet available


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