Scleranthus sp. Fitz's Hill (J.G.West 5342) Australian National Herbarium (CANB) APNI* Description: Lax, straggling, procumbent perennial with non-woody base; stems to c. 30 cm long, usually sparsely minutely hairy or scabrous.
Leaves more or less clustered but clusters not as remote as in S. fasciculatus, 4–7 mm long, keeled (at least near apex), with apiculate apex, margins sparsely minutely hairy or papillose, otherwise glabrous.
Inflorescence a long-pedunculate pair of subsessile flowers, peduncle to 11 mm long in fruit, glabrous or occasionally sparsely minutely hairy; pedicels absent or very short, to 0.5 mm long; sepals 5 (rarely 4), triangular ovate, to 0,8 mm long. Stamen 1.
Fruit and surrounding persistent calyx urceolate.
Distribution and occurrence: Distribution not clarified yet but apparently from Tenterfield south along the tablelands to the upper Hunter Valley region, western Sydney, and Hartley region.
NSW subdivisions: CC, NT, CT, NWS, CWS
This sprawling, long-pedunculate native species used to be included in S. biflorus sens. lat.; it has not yet been formally named.
Text by KL Wilson (Feb 2014; edited Aug 2015)
Taxon concept: National Herbarium of NSW specimens 2014
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