Family: Apiaceae
Eryngium supinum
Citation:
J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 55:140, t. 6, fig. 6 (1931).
Synonymy: Eryngium plantagineum Common name: Little devil.
Description:
Procumbent or prostrate perennial; branches stiff, cylindrical, usually prostrate; leaves almost flaccid; basal leaves flat, lanceolate, 10-25 mm long, 5-6 mm broad, tapering into a longer (3-6 cm) tubular slender petiole; stem-leaves similar but larger (sometimes 12-20 mm broad with 3 acute pungent-pointed lobes and sometimes denticulate below the lateral lobes).
Peduncles 1-5 (rarely 10) mm long; flowerheads axillary, at first hemispherical, then cylindrical, 15-23 mm long, 6-10 mm diam.; involucral bracts 5-8, narrow-lanceolate, 5-7 mm long, spreading, green or purple; torus-scales conical, muricate; sepals green, erect; petals bluish, fringed at the inflexed apex.
Fruit covered with acuminate scales.
Published illustration:
Jessop (1981) Flora of central Australia, fig. 352.2.
Distribution:
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On temporarily flooded ground, on cracking clays.
S.Aust.: LE. Qld; N.S.W.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Sept. — Oct.
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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
Taxonomic notes:
This species is closely related to E. plantagineum and some authors regard them as conspecific.
Author:
Not yet available
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