Cycloloma
Taxonomic status
Accepted
Occurrence status
Present
Establishment means
Introduced
Erect or spreading annual or biennial herb. Leaves alternate, sessile or shortly petiolate. Inflorescence an open panicle. Flowers bisexual or female; perianth 5-lobed; stamens (when present) 5; stigmas 2 or 3. Fruiting perianth papery, with a broad, toothed, equatorial wing; fruit a depressed-globose utricle with membranous pericarp; seed horizontal, lenticular with crustaceous testa.
Monotypic genus native to North America, established in Victoria but apparently not elsewhere in Australia.
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Chenopodiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 129–199. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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Cycloloma