Muehlenbeckia axillaris
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| Muehlenbeckia axillaris | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Polygonaceae |
| Genus: | Muehlenbeckia |
| Species: | M. axillaris |
| Binomial name | |
| Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook. f.) Walp. |
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Muehlenbeckia axillaris (creeping wire vine, sprawling wirevine, matted lignum) is a low shrub, forming wiry mats up to about 1 m in diameter, native to New Zealand, and Tasmania, New South Wales and Victoria in Australia.[1] It has thin, red-brown stems, with squarish to roundish leaves that are less than 1 cm in diameter, and 2–4 mm thick. Flowers are yellowish-white, 4-8 mm in diameter, and borne in groups of up to 3 in the axils. Fruit is black, shiny, and up to 3.5 mm long.
[edit] Synonyms
- Pseudanthus tasmanicus
[edit] References
- ^ "Muehlenbeckia axillaris". PlantNET - New South Wales Flora Online. Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust, Sydney Australia. http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Muehlenbeckia~axillaris. Retrieved 2009-03-08.
- Gen. Pl. Suppl. 4(2): 51 (1848)
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