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Phytolacca octandra L.
Family Phytolaccaceae
Common name: Inkweed

Phytolacca octandra L. APNI*

Description: Herb 1–2 m high, often woody at base, stems and inflorescences green to pinkish, glabrous.

Leaves elliptic to ovate or lanceolate, 5–16 cm long, 1–7 cm wide, margins entire, glabrous; petiole 10–40 mm long.

Stalk of inflorescence 1–2 cm long; pedicels in fruiting stage 2–3 mm long, shorter than the fruit. Stamens mostly 7 or 8, all inserted on the outer margin of the disc. Carpels mostly 8.

Fruit depressed-globose, 4–6 mm diam., red turning to black when ripe; to 8-lobed and 8-seeded.


Habit
Photo L. von Richter

Fruit
Photo L. von Richter

Flowering: spring to summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Weed, usually found in moist areas. Native of trop. Amer.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *NT, *CT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *NWP, *SWP
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *W.A. *S.A. *N.T.
AVH map***

Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)


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