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Portulaca intraterranea J.M.Black
Family Portulacaceae
Portulaca intraterranea J.M.Black APNI*

Description: Stout prostrate to decumbent annual or sometimes perennial, with stems to 20 cm long.

Axillary hairs inconspicuous, to 1 mm long.

Leaves obovate to oblanceolate, to 20 mm long. Flowers in 3- or 4-flowered heads. Petals 10–17 mm long, twice as long as sepals, yellow. Stamens > 20.

Capsule (without calyx and corolla) 3–5 mm long, operculum c. twice as long as the base, ± conical, constricted above the middle, the uppermost part ± globose; seeds grey-black, testa cells stellate at base and tuberculate, the tubercles nippled or pointed.


Flowering: August–December

Distribution and occurrence: Grows on red sand dunes, north of Broken Hill.
NSW subdivisions: NFWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. S.A. N.T.
AVH map***

Text by J. G. West
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)


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