Streptoglossa tenuiflora Dunlop

Species

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Characteristics

Annual erect herb to 30 cm high. Vegetative parts slightly aromatic, pilose to villous, glandular. Lower leaves with decurrent midrib, oblanceolate, 25–40 mm long, 3–8 mm wide, attenuate at base, irregularly serrate; upper leaves oblanceolate to linear, 6–25 mm long, 0.5–3 mm wide. Capitula in loose corymbs; involucre c. 10 mm long; outer bracts cuspidate with glabrous tips, densely ciliate, pilose (villous) and glandular below tip; median bracts cuspidate to acuminate, glabrous or villous–glabrescent; receptacle glabrous, non-glandular. Florets c. 90. Marginal florets ligulate, glabrous, glandular; ligules 1–2 mm long, 2-lobed. Disc floret corollas c. 6 mm long, 4-or 5-lobed; lobes glandular. Achenes c. 2 mm long, ± 8-ribbed, sparsely sericeous.
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Environment

Occurs on coastal and subcoastal clay plains and silty stream edges.
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Distribution

Streptoglossa tenuiflora world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:898833-1
WFO ID wfo-0000000840
COL ID 52Y6R
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Synonyms

Streptoglossa tenuiflora