Biology:Peplidium foecundum

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Short description: Species of plant

Peplidium foecundum
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near Narran Lake Nature Reserve
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Phrymaceae
Genus: Peplidium
Species:
P. foecundum
Binomial name
Peplidium foecundum
W.R.Barker

Peplidium foecundum is a plant in the Phrymaceae family, native to South Australia, Queensland, the Northern Territory and New South Wales.[1]

It was first described by William Robert Barker in 1992.[2][3] The species epithet, foecundum, is a Latin adjective which describes the plant as "fruitful".[4]

Description

Peplidium foecundum is a prostrate terrestrial or aquatic plant with rooting branches.[5] Its leaves are fleshy,[1][5] and up to 3 cm long on short (c. 0.5 mm) petioles.[5] The leaves can float when found in water.[5] The flowers are small and solitary, growing on short shoots in the leaf axils,[5] as racemes.[1] There are two stamens.[1] The fruit is an ovoid to globular capsule.[5]

Habitat

It is found in and beside ephemeral pools, in swamps,[1] on and in the margins of claypans[5] and swales.[1]

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q17746333 entry