Einadia nutans subsp. oxycarpa (Gauba) Paul G.Wilson APNI*
Description: Perennial rootstock with prostrate or twining herbaceous or woody stems.
Leaves alternate or opposite, linear, lanceolate or narrow-sagittate, to 30 mm long, glabrous; petiolate.
Inflorescences few-flowered, axillary and terminal, spike-like.
Flowering: bisexual; stamens 2 or 3.
Distribution and occurrence: Fruit with an inflated succulent pericarp, red or yellow. Heavy soils over much of the southern half of the continent, in and around other shrubs or trees.
NSW subdivisions: NWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: S.A.
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 Suppl. (1999)
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