Calandrinia stagnensis J.M.Black APNI* Description: Prostrate to decumbent succulent annual with stems to 100 mm long;
Leaves basal and on flowering stems, opposite, sessile, linear-oblong or clavate, stem leaves often terete, basal leaves 10–45 mm long, 1–3 mm wide.
Infloresencence bracts opposite, one scarious and the other leafy, larger and clavate; pedicels 3–4 mm long, erect to spreading in fruit. Sepals depressed-ovate, 2–3 mm long, persistent. Petals 5 or 6, pink, elliptic to ovate, 3–5 mm long, 1–2 mm wide. Stamens 8–12. Stigmas 4, free to the base.
Fruits an ovoid capsule, 4-valved, 2–3.5 mm long, exceeding the spreading sepals; seeds numerous, obovoid, red-brown, shiny, smooth to faintly colliculate, c. 0.4 mm long, c. 0.3 mm wide.
Flowering: January to September
Distribution and occurrence: New South Wales, Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland. Grows in arid areas in variable habitats (e.g. chenopod-rich plains) from claypans, saline swamps, sandy slopes, plains and intermittent watercourses and run-on areas.
NSW subdivisions: NWP, NFWP
Text by T.C. Wilson (January 2026)
Taxon concept: Black J.M. (1927) Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No. 25. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 51:379.
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