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Muehlenbeckia complexa (A.Cunn.) Meisn.
Family Polygonaceae
Common name: Wire Vine, Mattress Vine, Pohuehue

Muehlenbeckia complexa (A.Cunn.) Meisn. APNI*

Description: Much branched, tangled shrub or climber, commonly to 1 m or more; dioecious; stems puberulent when young; bark red-brown.

Leaf blade broad-oblong to suborbicular (subpanduriform on juvenile plants), rounded to obtuse at the base, coriaceous to subchartaceous, 0.5–2 mm long; petiole 2–5(-10) mm long.

Inflorescence axillary or terminal, clustered or usually spicate; flowers small, yellow-green; perianth lobes 2–3 mm long, enlarging in fruit to 5–6 mm long.

Achene trigonous, c. 2 mm long, black.


Habit
Photo S. Goodwin

Flower
Photo Greg Steenbeeke

Fruit
Photo Karen L Wilson

Herbarium
Sheet

Distribution and occurrence: Commonly cultivated; possibly naturalised in Canberra. Native to Lord Howe Island and in New Zealand.

Usually forming densely tangled, windswept bushes near the sea or in more sheltered places climbing to 4 m.
NSW subdivisions: LHI
Other Australian states: *W.A.
AVH map***

Cultivated widely.

Text by K.L. Wilson (2004)
Taxon concept: P.S. Green, Flora of Australia vol. 49 (1994)


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