Description:
Fruit appendages: Cavities, Scabrous with ridges and grooves
Winged ridges between individual fruit segments (carpels).Fruit Colour: Variable - brown/yellow, Straw coloured
Fruit Length: 5 - 7mm, 7 - 10mmFruit shape: Aggregate, Round
Seed Colour: Variable - brown/yellow, Straw colour
Seed Length: 1 - 2mm, 2 -4mm
Seed Sculpture: Reticulate, Ribbed, ScabrousSeed Shape: Wedge
Erect or decumbent annual usually to c. 50 cm high, stellate-hairy.
Leaves ± circular, 8–10 cm diam., 5–7-lobed, base cordate, margins crenate, sparsely pubescent; petiole mostly 1.5–12 cm long, rarely to 20 cm.
Flowers in axillary clusters forming an irregular raceme. Epicalyx segments narrow-linear, shorter than calyx. Calyx lobes broad-ovate, acute, 3–3.5 mm long; calyx enlarging to 13–15 mm diam. in fruit. Petals 4–6 mm long, white or pink.
Fruit 7–8 mm diam., brown when ripe, glabrous or pubescent, winged ridges between carpels.
Source: Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust
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