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Electronic Flora of South Australia infraspecific Fact Sheet

Family: Pittosporaceae
Bursaria spinosa var. australis

Citation: E. Bennett, Nuytsia 2:195 (1978).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Low to medium shrub; leaves clustered, narrowly lanceolate, 6-30 X 2-4 mm (of varying length in each cluster), more or less recurved.

Sepals deltoid, 0.5-1 mm long, present at anthesis; petals linear, c. 5 X c. 1.5 mm.

image of FSA1_Bursaria_spi_aus2.jpg Bursaria spinosa var. australis twig.
Image source: fig 233f in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA1_Bursaria_spi_aus.jpg Bursaria spinosa var. australis flower.
Image source: fig 233b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:    N.S.W. (central section); Vic. (north-western section).

Flowering time: mainly Oct. — Feb.

Biology: This variety differs from the typical in the larger petals, shape and clustering of the leaves.

Author: Not yet available


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