Aristolochia meridionalis subsp. meridionalis E.M.Ross APNI* 
Description: Slender vine with stems to c. 1.5 m long, glabrous.
Leaves sagittate to ovate-sagittate, sometimes triangular but always less than three times as long as wide, 1.2–9 cm long, 0.9–5 cm wide, base sagittate or shallowly to deeply cordate, apex acute to blunt, glabrous above, sparsely puberulent or glabrous below; petiole 0.5–5.5 cm long.
Flowers solitary, axillary. Calyx straight or curved, creamish or greyish mottled maroon or purplish brown, glabrous outside; utricle subglobose, 0.3–0.7 cm long; tube 6–14 mm long; limb 1-lobed, linguiform, 0.9–2.2 cm long, 0.2–0.3 cm wide; apex obtuse, mucronate to emarginate.
Fruit globose to obloid, 1–2 cm long, 1–1.6 cm diam., not beaked. Seed cordate-triangular, concave-convex, 3–5.5 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, 1–1.5 mm thick, verrucose on both surfaces, not winged.
Flowering: Flowers mainly December–March; fruits March–May.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in open forest or fringing forest situations from near Kalpowar to Beenleigh, south-eastern Qld, and in the Grafton district NSW. Collections from the Grafton area represent the first records of this taxon in NSW since William Baeuerlen collected it at Mullumbimby in May 1895.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
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