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 & Dr Timothy Hammer for identifying and Dr Miguel de Salas for helping with the id of 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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