Limestone Sida: Seed

Class:

Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) - Other Small Plants

Order:

Mallows (Malvales)

Family:

Mallow (Malvaceae)

Species:

Limestone Sida (Sida spodochroma)

This Photo:

Seed

Synonym:

Sida corrugata

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
A very small pale / grey green plant; almost white in bright sunlight.
It gets eaten, by summer, and then re-sprouts in winter.
To see our first flower we had to protect one of the larger plants from grazing by kangaroos; we placed a dead bush over it.

This species is classed as

VU (Vulnerable)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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