Petrorhagia dubia
(Raf.) G.Lopez & Romo Hairy PinkAnnual with densely glandular-tomentose internodes in middle-stem region. Stem erect, up to 50 cm high. Leaves sessile, linear, 10–60 mm long, 1–3.5 mm wide, acute, the sheaths at least twice as long as wide. Inflorescence a dense, terminal cluster, the bracts all more or less mucronate, concealing calyces; pedicels to c. 0.5 mm long; calyx c. 10 mm long, calyx-lobes short, obtuse, membranous; petals 10–13 mm long, 1.2–3.5 mm wide, pink or purplish, more or less emarginate; styles 2. Capsule elliptic-ovoid, c. 5 mm long; seeds brownish-black, strongly hooded, asperulate-tuberculate, 1–1.3 mm long. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, VAlp. Also naturalised WA, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. Native to parts of northern Africa, southwestern and southeastern Europe, Asia-temperate. A widespread weed of disturbed, dry places and semi-natural grassland and open woodland in Victoria.
Adams, L.G. (1996). Caryophyllaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 228–271. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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