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Scientific Name:Spergularia tasmanica
Sand Spurrey - plant
Tasmanian Sand-spurrey - plant
Photo: A J Brown


Other Common Names:


Spergularia aff. media, Spergularia 'Butchers Gap', Spergularia sp. 1


Also known as Spergularia sp. B in New South Wales, as Spergularia ‘Butchers Gap’ in South Australia, as Spergularia sp. 1 in Victoria and Western Australia and as Spergularia aff. media in Tasmania.


Status:


Uncertain but likely to be native to Australia. Occurs in all southern states and in New Zealand.


Plant Description:


Annual to perennial with a thick woody rootstock. Stems robust and more or less erect to 40 cm long. Leaves fleshy, linear and flattened, mucronate to shortly awned. Flowers pink with 6-10 stamens and shorter than the 4-7 mm sepals. Capsules longer than the sepals and contain winged, black and warty seeds, 0.7-1.1 mm long.


Habitat:


Widespread in marine and inland saline wetlands.

RegionSalinity ClassWaterlogging Class
Wimmera, Western, GippslandS2, S3, S4W2, W3


Comments:


A simplified key to Spergularia species can be accessed here – Key to species

Tasmanian Sand-spurrey Photos

Sand Spurrey - flower_buds
Tasmanian Sand-spurrey - flower buds
Photo: A J Brown
Tasmanian Sand-spurrey flower
Tasmanian Sand-spurrey - flower
Photo: A J Brown

Sand Spurrey - flower
Tasmanian Sand-spurrey - flower

Photo: A J Brown

Sand Spurrey - leaves
Tasmanian Sand-spurrey - leaves
Photo: A J Brown

Sand Spurrey - flower_buds
Tasmanian Sand-spurrey - flower buds
Photo: A J Brown

Sand Spurrey - leaves
Tasmanian Sand-spurrey - leaves
Photo: A J Brown


Mature capsle of Tasmanian Sand-spurrey
Mature capsule of Tasmanian Sand-spurrey

Photo: A J Brown
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