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Richardia brasiliensis Gomes
Family Rubiaceae
Common name: White Eye, Mexican Clover

Richardia brasiliensis Gomes APNI*

Description: Prostrate to ascending, annual herb; stems to 40 cm long, hispid.

Leaves elliptic to ovate or obovate, 0.5–5 cm long, 3–28 mm wide, apex acute, lamina ± hispid; petiole 4–12 mm long.

Involucral bracts 2 or 4, mostly broad-ovate. Flowers 20 or more in a head. Calyx 6-lobed, lobes spreading, margins shortly ciliate. Corolla white, mostly 6-lobed, tube 3–8 mm long. Mericarps 3, 2.5–3 mm long, abaxial surface long-papillose, adaxial surface broad, glabrous with a definite raised median ridge.


Flower
Photo W. Cherry

Fruit
Photo W. Cherry

Other photo
Photo W. Cherry

Flowering: spring–autumn.

Distribution and occurrence: Weed of disturbed sites; coastal districts north from Sydney. Native of S Amer.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *NWP
Other Australian states: *Qld
AVH map***

Text by T. A. James & W. K. Allen
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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