Anthocercis littorea
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Anthocercis littorea is a plant type from the genus Anthocercis in the family of the nightshade family (Solanaceae). It is endemic to Western Australias , an English common name is Yellow Tailflower .
description
Anthocercis littorea is an upright, rarely spreading shrub with a height of up to 3 m. It branches out strongly from the base, the branches and leaves are hairless. Seedlings have scattered spines along the trunk. The leaves are inverted ovate to narrowly inverted ovoid, sometimes spatulate. They are completely or almost sessile, 18 to 65 mm long and 4 to 31 mm wide. They are entire or toothed on young leaves and are usually thick and fleshy.
The inflorescences are grape-shaped and interspersed with leaves. The flower stalks are 2.5 to 7.5 mm long, the calyx 4 to 7.5 mm. The crown is yellow or pale yellow in color and has brown, purplish-brown or maroon stripes and is 14 to 32 mm long. The corolla lobes are linear, 10 to 25 mm long and 2 to 4 mm wide. The stamens are 3 to 8 mm long.
The fruit is a narrowly egg-shaped to narrowly egg-shaped-elliptical capsule that is pointed, pointed or tapered and 9 to 19 mm long. It contains seeds with a length of 1.5 to 1.9 mm.
Occurrence and locations
The species is found only along the southern and western coasts of Western Australia and extends in the north to Shark Bay . It grows there in calcareous sand and occurs mainly after fires and other disturbances in colonies.
proof
- RW Purdie, DE Symon and L. Haegi: Anthocercis fasciculata . In: Solanaceae , Flora of Australia, Volume 29, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1982. p. 8. ISBN 0-642-07015-6 .
