Spergularia media
(L.) C.Presl Greater Sea-spurreyPerennial; rootstock woody, branching; stems 5–40 cm long. Leaves flattened, acute to shortly awned, hardly fasciculate, 10–25(–50) mm long, (0.8–)1–1.5(–2) mm wide, glabrous or upper leaves glandular-hairy; stipules not acuminate, 2.5–6 mm long, connate for more than half their length. Inflorescence lax, dichasial; pedicels reflexed or not, much longer than sepals, glabrous or glandular-hairy. Flowers (7.5–)10–13 mm diam.; sepals (3–)4–5(–6) mm long, glabrous or glandular-hairy with hairs 0.25–0.4 mm long; petals usually slightly exceeding sepals, white, rose-pink or lilac; stamens (0–)9 or 10(–11), with 0–10 staminodes. Capsules ovoid-oblong, 1–2.5(–6) mm longer than sepals; seeds 0.6–1.1 mm long, smooth to minutely tuberculate, red-brown, scariously winged or occasionally unwinged, the wing-margin entire to more or less denticulate. Flowers Sep.–Jan.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, EGL, WPro, HSF, VAlp. Also naturalised SA< Qld, NSW. Native of Europe, western Asia and northern Africa. Coastal and inland saline habitats.
Adams, L.G.; West, J.G. (1996). Spergularia. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 257–262. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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