Velleia exigua (F.Muell.) Carolin

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial, to 10 cm tall, glabrous, stoloniferous. Leaves cauline, clustered in irregular whorls, terete-spathulate, with yellowish aristate tip to 10 mm long; lamina to 3 mm wide. Inflorescence with flowers in few-flowered axillary cymes or solitary. Bracteoles linear, 1-2 mm long. Adaxial sepal deltoid, c. 1 mm long. Corolla c. 2 mm long, yellow, glabrous outside and inside, without enations; wings short, c. 0.5 mm wide. Ovary with septum very short; ovules 3 or 4; indusium obloid, c. 0.5 mm wide. Capsule subglobular. Seeds subglobular, c. 1 mm diam., punctate; wing obsolete.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Grows in saline clays.
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Distribution

Velleia exigua world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:964770-1
WFO ID wfo-0000422276
COL ID 7X7PH
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Synonyms

Velleia exigua Goodenia exigua Selliera exigua