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Volume I (1961) - Flora of New Zealand Indigenous Tracheophyta - Psilopsida, Lycopsida, Filicopsida, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledons
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Disphyma australe (Aiton) N.E.Br.

D. australe (Sol.) J. M. Black in Trans. roy. Soc. S. Aust. 56, 1932, 40.

Mesembryanthemum australe Sol. ex Ait. Hort. Kew. 2, 1789, 187.

Horokaka.

Stems stout, ± 5 mm. diam., branching, prostrate, up to 1 m. or more long. Lvs opp. or in opp. clusters, connate at base, (1)-2-4-(5) cm. long, linear to linear-oblong to narrow-spathulate when dry, succulent and triquetrous when fresh, acute to obtuse. Fls 2-3 cm. diam.; peduncle stout, thickening upwards, 1-4 cm. long. Calyx-tube turbinate, thick, fleshy; lobes 5, 2 much longer than rest. Staminodes ∞, spreading, linear to ligulate, pink to white, c. 1 cm. long. Carpels 5-8-celled; styles 5-8.

DIST.: K., N., S., St., Ch. Common on coastal rocks, cliffs and gravels throughout.

FL. 7-3. FT. 9-4.

Cockayne and Allan (Ann. Bot., Lond. 48, 1934, 20) suggest that certain intermediate forms found near Castlepoint may be due to hybridism with the naturalized Carpobrotus aequilateralis.

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