Polygala exsquarrosa
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Description
Annual, erect or ascending, branched herb up to 15 cm high.
Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 5-15 by c. 1 mm, subsessile, mucronate, with recurved margin, sparingly set with long hairs, l-nerved.
Flowers 4-5 mm long, whitish with green alae.
Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, hairy, the alae asymmetric, 3-nerved.
Ovary asymmetrically quadrangular, patently hairy;
Capsule much shorter but somewhat wider than the alae, c. 2-2.5 mm long, asymmetrically quadrangular, deeply notched apically, narrowly winged, set with stiff, long hairs.
Seeds ovoid, at micropylar side with an unequally 3-lobed aril, black, densely set with rather long appressed hairs.
Distribution
Aru Is present, Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, Australasia: Northern Territory (Northern Territory present); Queensland (Queensland present), Brisbane present, Cyclops Mts present, Papua present, SE. Moluccas present, Thursday I present, Trangan present, W. Distr present
Australia (Northern Territory; Queensland: Thursday I., Brisbane); in Malesia: SE. Moluccas, Aru Is. (Trangan), New Guinea (Cyclops Mts: 1 coll.; Papua: W. Distr., 1 coll.).