Frankeniaceae Frankenia Wildflowers

Bristly Sea-heath

Stephen L (Clare) SA — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:09:00 GMT

Low spreading shrub or bushy herb to 30 cm high and 50 cm diam., hairs short, spreading. Leaves ovate to oblong or elliptic, 3–9 mm long, margins recurved, midrib and some of lower surface exposed, pubescent. Flowers in much-branched dichasia; bracts and bracteoles similar to leaves but often smaller and more hairy. Calyx 5–9 mm long, ribs with bristly to long soft hairs, grooves minutely pubescent. Petals 7–12 mm long. Stamens 6 or 7. Seeds smooth or finely wrinkled.
Family: Frankeniaceae Genus: Frankenia Species: serpyllifolia Main Flower Colour: Pink

Frankenia (no common name)

Member - Warren H — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 05:54:00 GMT

Small densely branched shrubs; branches differentiated into long- and short-shoots, short-pilose, hairs spreading to lightly curved, internodes 0.6-7.5 mm long; long-shoot leaves 2.8-6.2 mm long; leaf bases 0.5-2 mm long, 0.5-1.2 mm wide at the distal end, medially somewhat thickened and indurate, flattened towards the margins, tapering somewhat toward the distal end; leaf blades narrowly oblong, 0.8-1 mm wide, subterete, rigidly coriaceous, somewhat succulent; margins strongly thickened, tightly revolute on fresh, dried, and boiled material, true abaxial surface reduced to a narrow medial furrow; mid-vein narrow, linear, inconspicuous; surfaces grey-green, punctate, adaxial surface glabrous to puberulent with spreading hairs, abaxial surface puberulent; short-shoot leaves similar to long-shoot leaves. Flowers borne at the top 1-4 nodes of the upper branches, commonly solitary or in dichasia with 2 or 3 flowers, subtended by 1 or 2 pairs of leaf-like floral bracts not connate at the base; calyces 5- or 6-lobed, 6.4-7.8 mm long, 2-3 mm wide near the apex, tubular, gradually broadening toward the apex, centres of ribs glabrous, margins and grooves puberulent with lightly curved to spreading hairs; petals 5 or 6, spathulate, 7.4-10.7 mm long; stamens 6, in 2 unequal whorls, 5.8-9.7 mm long; styles 7.2-8.9 mm long; style-branches 3, 0.8-1.5 mm long; stigmas terminal, lightly swollen at the tips, 0.2-0.3 mm long; ovaries with 3 short basal-parietal placentae; ovules 5 or 6, 1 or 2 per placenta, attached 0.2-0.5 mm from the carpel base on long recurving funicles. Capsules 1- or 2-seeded, seeds 1.1-1.5 mm long.
Family: Frankeniaceae Genus: Frankenia Species: Frankenia plicata Main Flower Colour: Pink

Frankenia cinerea

John Baas — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:10:00 GMT

Shrub, 0.1-0.3(-0.45) m high. Fl. white & pink, Aug to Oct. White/grey sand, laterite, clay. Salt lakes & pans, breakaways.
Family: Frankeniaceae Genus: Frankenia Species: cinerea Main Flower Colour: Pink