Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Tribulopis homalococca var. alifer (Domin) R.M.Barker
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Flower. © G. Sankowsky
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Leaves and flowers. © CSIRO
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Herbarium specimen. © DERM
Family
Barker, R.M. (1998) Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 18(2): 92.
Leaves
Flowers
Flower buds rotund. Flowers 11-14 mm diam. Pedicels 11-15 mm long. Sepals about 4 x 2 mm, outer surface clothed in hairs. Petals 6-7 x 4 mm. Anthers about 1 mm long, filaments about 1 mm long. Ovary + style about 2 mm long, ovary longitudinally ribbed (5). Extrastaminal nectariferous disc with 5 lobes. Ovules one per locule. Stigma 5-ribbed and papillate.
Fruit
Fruit a glabrous schizocarp topped by a persistent style and stigma, fruitlets each with a basal semicircular wing, 2.5-3 mm diameter with longitudinal wings on the locules containing developed seeds. Seeds 4-5 mm long. Embryo about 2 mm long, consisting mainly of cotyledons.
Seedlings
Features not available.
Distribution and Ecology
Synonyms
Tribulus homalococcus var. alifer Domin, Bibliotheca Botanica 89(4): 834(1921), Type: Bei Chillagoe (DOMIN II. 1910).
RFK Code
4105
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