Melichrus procumbens (Jam Tarts)
[From PlantNet] Procumbent shrub, forming mats or ascending to 20 cm high.
Leaves upwardly appressed near end of branches, horizontal to reflexed on lower surface, 11–28 mm long, 1.2–4 mm wide, scabrous and with scattered longer hairs and deeply 10–14 ribbed on lower surface, margins often narrow-hyaline, with scattered short to long hairs; petiole to c. 0.5 mm.
Flowers on underside of branches, cream or pale green with pink-tinged lobes; bracteoles 3–5.5 mm long. Sepals 5–7.5 mm long, silky, greenish. Corolla tube saucer-shaped, 2–2.5 mm long; lobes 3–3.5 mm long, spreading, glabrous or with a few hairs inside.
Fruit depressed-globose, 2–4 mm long, green to red, smooth, glabrous.
Melichrus procumbens is listed in the following regions:
Species information
- Melichrus procumbens Scientific name
- Jam Tarts Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 321.12m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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Location information
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Maps
CA0474 -
Places
Bucketty, NSW
