Ilparpa Claypans FloraAnnual Yellowtop (Senecio gregorii) Apple Bush (Pterocaulon sphacelatum) Buffel Grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) Button grass (Dactyloctenium radulans) Centipeda crateriformis Cyperus sp Goatshead Burr (Sclerolaena bicornis) Golden Everlasting (Xerochrysum bracteatum) Invisible Plant (Siemssenia capillaris) Longtails (Ptilotus polystachyus) Nardoo (Marsilea drummondii) Pink Everlasting (Schoenia cassiniana) Polycarpaea brevifolia Red Pussytail (Ptilotus polystachyus) Schenkia australis Small-Leaf Swainson-Pea (Swainsona microphylla) Tiny Purslane (Calandrinia pumila) Tiny Purslane (White form) Variable Daisy (Brachyscome ciliaris) Wahlenbergia capillaris Yellow Billybutton (Calocephalus platycephalus)
Species Polycarpaea brevifolia, previously ID as Polycarpaea corymbosa var brevifolia.
These are an erect herb that is a pubescent plant. Pubescent describes the fine, short soft down hair covering the leaves and stems of a plant, that aids in lowering the leaf temperature and transpiration rates.
See more in our Flora section on the Wildflowers of Central Australia.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Charophyta
- Class: Equisetopsida
- Order: Caryophyllales
- Family: Caryophyllaceae
- Genus: Polycarpaea
- Species: Polycarpaea breviflora
- Species: Polycarpaea corymbosa
- Variety: Polycarpaea corymbosa (L.) Lam. var. corymbosa
- Variety: Polycarpaea corymbosa var. minor Pedley
- Variety: Polycarpaea corymbosa var. torrensis Pedley
Footnote & References
- ID as Polycarpaea brevifolia and not Polycarpaea corymbosa var brevifolia, Alice Springs Field Naturalists Club, https://www.facebook.com/groups/alicefieldnats
- Alice Springs Field Naturalists Club Newsletter, March 2016, p6, http://alicefieldnaturalists.org.au/16_03.pdf
- Polycarpaea breviflora F.Muell., Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/node/apni/2898361
- Polycarpaea, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarpaea (last visited Sept. 22, 2022).
- Polycarpaea corymbosa var brevifolia, 21°45’22.201″S, 133°47’51.472″E (Anmatjere NT 0872), author Mark Marathon, 4 February 2017, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polycarpaea_corymbosa_var_brevifolia.jpg
Ilparpa Claypans FloraAnnual Yellowtop (Senecio gregorii) Apple Bush (Pterocaulon sphacelatum) Buffel Grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) Button grass (Dactyloctenium radulans) Centipeda crateriformis Cyperus sp Goatshead Burr (Sclerolaena bicornis) Golden Everlasting (Xerochrysum bracteatum) Invisible Plant (Siemssenia capillaris) Longtails (Ptilotus polystachyus) Nardoo (Marsilea drummondii) Pink Everlasting (Schoenia cassiniana) Polycarpaea brevifolia Red Pussytail (Ptilotus polystachyus) Schenkia australis Small-Leaf Swainson-Pea (Swainsona microphylla) Tiny Purslane (Calandrinia pumila) Tiny Purslane (White form) Variable Daisy (Brachyscome ciliaris) Wahlenbergia capillaris Yellow Billybutton (Calocephalus platycephalus)
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