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Centranthus macrosiphon Boiss.
Family Caprifoliaceae
Centranthus macrosiphon Boiss. APNI*

Description: Annual herb to 50 cm high, glabrous, younger leaves glaucous.

Lower stem leaves ovate to broadly elliptical, 3–15 cm long, 1–3 cm wide, margins lobed, sometimes toothed; leaves becoming pinnatifid below the inflorescence; petiolate to sessile and stem-clasping.

Terminal thyrses often divided into several cymose part-inflorescences with numerous sessile flowers. Calyx toothed, teeth incurved in flower, spreading and feather-like in fruit. Corolla pink to rose-red, rarely white; tube slender, 6–8 mm long, basal spur c. 1 mm long; lobes 3–4 mm long.

Fruit glabrous, rarely hirsute.


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Flowering: Flowers mainly August–December

Distribution and occurrence: Cultivated as an ornamental, sometimes naturalised, preferring calcareous soils.
NSW subdivisions: *CWS
Other Australian states: *W.A. *S.A.
AVH map***

Text by L. Retter
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***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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