Family: Campanulaceae
Wahlenbergia gymnoclada
Citation:
Loth., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 71:227 (1947).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Naked bluebell.
Description:
Perennial herbs with a fleshy rootstock and spreading rhizomes, glabrous; aerial stems 10-60 cm long, seldom branched; leaves opposite, becoming alternate up the stem, 5-50 mm long, 1-3.5 mm wide, linear, margins flat.
Flowers solitary on long stalks; receptacle 2.5-4 mm long, obconical or elongated-obeonical; sepals 5, 2-6 mm long, narrowly triangular, acute; corolla blue, campanulate; tube 3-6 mm long, funnel-shaped; lobes 5, 7-16 mm long, c. 3 times as long as the tube, narrowly elliptical; stamens 5; filaments c. 2 mm long, rhombic with protuberant shoulders; anthers c. 4 mm long; ovary 3-celled; style 6-10.5 mm long, 3-fid, uncontracted, with 2 glands below each stigmatic cleft.
Capsule 5-9 mm long, obconical or elongated-obconical.
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Image source: fig. 626b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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An uncommon species found in open sites in a variety of vegetation types.
S.Aust.: SE. Vic.; Tas.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Oct. — Feb.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
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