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Gonocarpus hirtus Orchard
Family Haloragaceae
Gonocarpus hirtus Orchard APNI*

Description: Weak, scrambling subshrub to 40(-70) cm high; stems mainly annual, rounded; densely pilose with soft, spreading hairs.

Leaves opposite, becoming alternate near the inflorescence, narrow-ovate, mostly 10–14 mm long, 5–8 mm wide, margins thickened, with c. 10 coarse teeth per leaf, covered with spreading hairs; petiolate.

Petals 1.7–2.2 mm long reddish-purple.

Fruit ovoid, c. 1.3 mm long, silver-grey, 8-ribbed, with c. 3 oblique calluses between the ribs.


Type
Specimen

Flowering: Spring–Summer.

Distribution and occurrence: on the ranges from north of Tamworth to the Border Ranges, Queensland;

in woodland or shrubland on volcanic substrates (granite, trachyte).
NSW subdivisions: NT, NWS
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by Peter G. Wilson
Taxon concept: A.E. Orchard (2004)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***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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