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Melilotus siculus (Turra) B.D.Jacks.

Reference
Index Kew. 3:199 (1894)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Alien to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Erect or sprawling annual, herb, to 0.5 m high. Fl. yellow/pink, Dec. Black peaty sand. Grazed swamplands, pasture.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 20 August 2007

Scientific Description

Erect, herb. Stems flattened, not spiny, glabrous; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, compound, alternate, not continuous with stem, 40-60 mm long, glabrous, flat with flat margins; tubercles absent, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked; pustules or glands absent. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Pedicel present, 1.5-1.52(-2) mm long, glabrous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 2.5-3.5 mm long, not accrescent, glabrous, ribless; pustules or glands absent. Corolla multicoloured, mostly yellow or pink, with some yellow or pink spots, streaks or blotches. Stamens ten; filaments united in an open sheath with one free stamen. Fruit indehiscent and splitting into sections (schizocarps), 7-7.5 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, sessile or subsessile, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, glabrous, not beaked. Flowers in December. Occurs in the South-West Botanical Province, in the Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 24 October 2023

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Swan Coastal Plain.
IBRA Subregions
Perth.
IMCRA Regions
Leeuwin-Naturaliste.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Bunbury, Capel, Dardanup.