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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Microcybe pauciflora

Citation: Turcz., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mos. 25:167 (1852).

Synonymy: Eriostemon capitatus F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 1:106 (1859).

Common name: Yellow microcybe.

Description:
Shrub to 0.6 m; branchlets smooth, silvery-stellate to scaly; leaves spreading, shortly petiolate; lamina c. 5 x 1 mm, upper surface glandular-punctate, sparsely scabridulous from the persistent hair bases; margin revolute; apex rounded.

Inflorescence of 5-12 or more flowers, exceeding the leaves; peduncle silvery stellate-scaly; foliar bracts c. 5 x 1 mm, leaf-like in all characters; sepals free, narrow-oblong, c. 1 mm long, stellate-scaly on the abaxial surface; petals pale-yellow, glabrous or sparsely ciliate towards the base; filaments stellate-scaly towards the base (opposite the petals filaments sparsely so).

Cocci c. 4 mm high, glabrous, apex rounded; seeds c. 2-3 mm long, black.

Published illustration: J. Black (1948) Fl. S. Aust., fig. 669.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; Vic.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Aug. — Jan.


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