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Family: Myrtaceae
Thryptomene biseriata

Citation: J. Green, sp. nov.

Synonymy: T. urceolaris sensu Jessop, List Vasc. Pl. S. Aust. edn 2:46 (1984), non F. Muell.

Common name: None

Description:
Shrub, erect, many-stemmed, c. 1 m high; leaves subglobose to shortly clavate, 1.5-2 mm long, sessile or nearly so, apex mucronate to shortly apiculate; inflorescences mostly 1-flowered, scattered among the branchlets.

peduncles 1-1.5 mm long; hypanthium narrowly obconical, 1.5-2 mm long, attenuated into a pedicel 1-2 mm long, smooth to rugose; sepals depressed-ovate, c. 1 mm long, distinctly clawed, inserted irregularly below the rim, pink; petals slightly longer, pink; stamens 5, opposite the sepals; connective gland globular, as large as the loculi; ovules 2, lateral.

seed 1.

Distribution:  Red sand dunes.

S.Aust.: NW, NU.   W.Aust.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: July.


SA Distribution Map based
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specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: The leaves resemble those of the W.Aust. goldfields species T. urceolaris which has the same number of stamens and ovules but completely different hypanthium and fruit.

Author: Not yet available


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