Family: Amaranthaceae
Maireana cannonii
Citation:
Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 2:42 (1975).
Synonymy: Kochia cannonii J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 43:29 (1919).
Common name: None
Description:
Small much-branched shrub; branchlets closely woolly; leaves opposite, sessile, semiterete, 5-6 mm long; with a short silky indumentum, base shortly spurred, apex recurved.
Flowers solitary, bisexual, densely pubescent.
Fruiting perianth strongly depressed, sparsely pubescent above, glabrous below; attachment broad and flat; tube dish-shaped, c. 2.5 mm diam., crustaceous; wing simple, circular, horizontal, thin, c. 6 mm diam., with a single radial (radicular) slit; upper perianth slightly convex; style hard and exserted.
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Image source: fig. 159f in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: LE, GT, FR, EP.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: Sept. — April.
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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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