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Triumfetta saccata Halford

Reference
Austrobaileya 4:520,Fig.2F (1997)
Conservation Code
Priority One
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Shrub, known only from one specimen; fruits 10-12 mm long, 16-20 mm diam.; prickles 3-4 mm long.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 22 September 1999

Scientific Description

Shrub, with hairy stems. Leaves 25-50 mm long, 10-15 mm wide, not lobed; margins serrate; hairy, with stellate hairswith scales absent, Sessile glands absent; stipules present but early deciduous (only visible on youngest leaves), 5-6 mm long. Fruits indehiscent and not splitting into sections (drupes), length-width ratio more or less as long as wide, hairs or scales present, simple hairs (without tubercle bases) absent, stellate hairs present, Sessile glands absent, tubercle-based simple hairs absent, gland-tipped hairs absent, scales absent; apex rounded; prickles present, abundantly covering the fruit; terminal awns or spines absent; calyx persistent to mature fruit, not accrescent. Flowering time July. Distribution Botanical Province Northern, IBRA Bioregion Central Kimberley. Conservation Code Priority One (P1).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 11 August 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Central Kimberley.
IBRA Subregions
Hart.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Halls Creek.