WorldFloraDB - Selliera radicans

Characteristics

Herb with far-creeping stems and branches, rooting at nodes (sts subterranean), yellowish, forming matted patches up to 5 dm. or more diam.; final branchlets sts ascending. Lvs on slender flattened petioles up to c. 4 cm. long, solitary or up to 4 in a fascicle; lamina somewhat fleshy, glossy, of 3 main forms (sts on same plant)--(a) narrowly spathulate, (b) obovate-spathulate, (c) linear to linear-spathulate; (3)-7-15-30 × 1-5 mm. Infl. of solitary fls on bracted peduncles up to ± 4 cm. long; occ. 2-fld, on pedicels ± 2 cm. long; bracts minute, subulate-attenuate. Fls obliquely 7-10 mm. diam. Calyx persistent, with linear to narrow-triangular erect lobes 1-2 mm. long; corolla white to very pale blue, lobes narrow-oblong, acute to acuminate. Fr. obovoid to ovoid, truncate, (3·5)-6-10 mm. long. Seeds compressed, narrowly winged.

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Prostrate herb; stems often matted, to 50 cm long, glabrous. Leaves ±glossy, spathulate to obovate, entire; lamina usually 1-11 cm long, 2-35 mm wide. Inflorescence with peduncles to 5 cm long; bracteoles linear, mostly to 3 mm long; pedicels to 12 mm long. Sepals ovate to oblong, 4-5 mm long, adnate to ovary almost to top. Corolla 5-12 mm long. Ovary attenuate at base; indusium subglobular, with silky hairs at base, glabrous or nearly so on lips. Seeds orbicular to elliptic, c. 2 mm wide, brown; wing c. 0.5 mm wide, usually crumpled, very sticky when wet.

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Growth form	herb
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Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:384361-1
WFO ID	wfo-0001065176
COL ID	7WWPN
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Wikipedia (EN)	Link
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Synonyms

Selliera microphylla Selliera repens Selliera herpystica Goodenia repens Goodenia radicans Selliera radicans Selliera fasciculata

WorldFloraDB 2024

Selliera radicans Cav.

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Goodeniaceae > Selliera