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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Galenia pubescens

Citation: Druce, Rep. Botl Soc. Exch. Club Br. Isl. 1916:624 ( 1917) var. pubescens.

Synonymy: G. secunda sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 344 (1948), mainly; G. secunda sensu N.S.W. authors; Aizoon pubescerts Ecklon & Zeyher, Enum. Pl. Afr. aust. Extratrop. 3:326 (1837).

Common name: Coastal galenia.

Description:
Greyish villous perennial; stems prostrate, softly woody, to c. 1 m long, reddish or grey, with appressed hairs 0.3-0.7 mm long; leaves grey-green, thinly covered with hair-like scales, scattered along the stems, obovate to narrowly spathulate, 3-20 mm long, flat or somewhat folded and recurving.

Perianth greenish-white, usually pink inside, 2-3 mm long; anthers pink; styles 5.

Distribution:  Especially near the sea.

  W.Aust.; Vic.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: mainly Oct. — April.


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