Asperula wimmerana Airy Shaw & Turrill APNI* Description: Herbs to 12 cm high, sparingly branched with sparce or more often moderately dense hairs. Internodes mostly 4- 15 mm long, but up to 30 mm long.
Leaves commonly angled forwards, sometimes spreading, narrow-oblong to narrow-linear, 3–14 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide; margin recurved or revolute, glabrous or with several to numerous spreading hairs.
Flowers in terminal heads of few to several flowers, congested, corolla glabrous; ovary markedly oblate. Male flowers with corolla 1.5–2.5 mm long, tube 0.4–1.2 mm long; ovary 0.2 mm long; anthers 0.4–0.6 mm long, half to two-thirds as long as the filament, ovary 0.2 mm long. Female flowers with corolla 1.5–2.5 mm long, tube 0.4–1.2 mm long; ovary 0.6–0.8 mm long; style 1.5 mm long with arms c. 0.3 mm long.
Fruit 1.5–3 mm long.
Flowering: Flowers late winter to spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Primarily occurring in Victoria, but also in south-eastern South Australia and south western plains of NSW. Grows on low plains, in seasonally wet often subsaline habitats, in grassland and woodland.
NSW subdivisions: SWP
Other Australian states: Vic. S.A.
Text by Louisa Murray (August 2011)
Taxon concept: Thompson, I.R. (2009). A revision of Asperula and Galium (Rubieae: Rubiaceae) in Australia. Muelleria 27, p56-57.
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