Peplidium foecundum | |
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near Narran Lake Nature Reserve | |
Scientific classification
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Lamiales |
Family: | Phrymaceae |
Genus: | Peplidium |
Species: | P. foecundum
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Binomial name | |
Peplidium foecundum |
Peplidium foecundum is a plant in the Phrymaceae family, native to South Australia, Queensland, the Northern Territory and New South Wales. [2]
It was first described by William Robert Barker in 1992. [3] [4] The species epithet, foecundum, is a Latin adjective which describes the plant as "fruitful". [5]
Peplidium foecundum is a prostrate terrestrial or aquatic plant with rooting branches. [6] Its leaves are fleshy, [2] [6] and up to 3 cm long on short (c. 0.5 mm) petioles. [6] The leaves can float when found in water. [6] The flowers are small and solitary, growing on short shoots in the leaf axils, [6] as racemes. [2] There are two stamens. [2] The fruit is an ovoid to globular capsule. [6]
It is found in and beside ephemeral pools, in swamps, [2] on and in the margins of claypans [6] and swales. [2]