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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Caryophyllaceae
Scleranthus diander

Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 412 (1810).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Small perennial herb with loosely tufted ascending stems, to c. 10 cm high, often fragrant; leaves crowded, linear-acute, not pungent, sometimes trigonous, c. 6 mm long.

Flowers subsessile, numerous in terminal or axillary clusters, surrounded by acute bracts; calyx c. 5 mm long, lobes c. 2.5 mm long, broadly lanceolate, with scarious margins; stamens 2; ovary indehiscent and falling with the calyx.

Seeds 1, c. 1 mm long, c. 0.7 mm wide.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Flowering: not known in S.Aust.


SA Distribution Map based
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State Herbarium of South Australia

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