Pink Mulla Mulla
Flower Close Up
Rabbit-tails
Green
| Pink Mulla Mulla Flower Close Up | | Rabbit-tails Green | | ||
 | Class: | Plants (Plantae) - Small Bluebushes & Saltbushes | |||
| Order: | Betalains (Caryophyllales) | ||||
| Family: | Amaranth (Amaranthaceae) | ||||
| Species: | Pink Mulla Mulla (Ptilotus exaltatus) | ||||
| This Photo: | Flower with old Fruit | ||||
Thank you Darren Schmitke for identifying this species for us Thank you Dr Miguel de Salas for helping with the identification of this species Thank you Dr Timothy Hammer for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere Darren invited us to a local reserve to show us some stunning species exploding after a fire 2.5 years ago. When we found this Darren told us it was Mulla Mulla. However trying to nail down the binomial name presented a challenge. It turns out the taxonomy of Ptilotus has been a bit of a mess. Some on-line systems still haven't caught up. At one point this was P. exaltatus var exaltatus, then was moved to Ptilotus nobilis ssp. nobilis, but then the other sub-species of P. nobilis were moved elsewhere and this defaulted to P. nobilis. Miguel highlighted this to us on iNaturalist. Then Timothy wrote a paper clarifying it's taxonomic position back to P. exaltatus. Well at least the common name didn't change LOL | |||||
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