Purple Trachymene
Leaf
Murray Mallee Region
Purple Trachymene
Flower & Fruit
 
                      
Purple Trachymene (Trachymene cyanopetala)Class: Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)
Order: Carrots (Apiales)
Family: Ivy (Araliaceae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Purple Trachymene (Trachymene cyanopetala)
This Photo:     🔍Flower🔎

Thank you (Pennywort_Man ) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Riverland and possibly elsewhere
Named after the colour of the fruit. It has small white flowers, heavily lobed leaves. It can be a small compact plant or a lanky, spreading one. The fruit is quite spiny looking.

Copyright © 2020-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 27-Aug-2020
This species is classed as LC (Least Concern) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)