Family: Zygophyllaceae
Zygophyllum compressum
Citation:
J. Black, Fl.S. Aust. 333 (1924).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Rabbit-ears twinleaf
Description:
Erect or ascending annual; leaflets ovate to almost orbicular, the uppermost oblong and more or less acute, 8-15 mm long, appressed to each other with their upper surfaces, glaucous; sepals 4, glaucous with whitish membranous margins.
Petals 4, obovate, rounded at the apex, 4-6 mm long, twice as long as the sepals, yellow; stamens 8; filaments winged in the lower part; disk with 4 erect linear-oblong lobes which are truncate and ciliolate at the apex and almost as long as the ovary.
Capsule obovoid, 7-10 mm long, 4-angled; seeds 2-4 in each cell.
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Image source: fig 393e in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Jessop (1981) Flora of central Australia, fig. 207B & T.
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Distribution:
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In salty claypans, probably gypsophilous.
W.Aust.; N.T.; Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: April — Nov., rarely in summer.
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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:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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