Platysace maxwellii
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| Internal ID | UUID643ff77aa8a09836668190 |
| Scientific name | Platysace maxwellii |
| Authority | (F.Muell.) C.Norman |
| First published in | J. Bot. 77: 210 (1939) |
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Platysace maxwellii, commonly known as native potato or karno, is a shrub endemic to Western Australia. It has a slender, erst to straggling habit and typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 1.2 metres (1 to 4 ft). It blooms between October and April producing white flowers and is found on plains and hills with a scattered distribution from the Mid West through the Wheatbelt and into the south west of the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. It was initially described by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1892 and reclassified into the Platysace genera in 1939. Aborigines used the plant as a food source since it produces large numbers of round tubers about 0.5 metres (1.6 ft) underground which are accessed using a digging stick and can be eaten raw or roasted over a fire.
Synonyms Top
| Scientific name | Authority | First published in |
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| Trachymene maxwellii | F.Muell. | Vict. Naturalist 9: 56 (1892) |
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Suggest others/fix!| Database | ID/link to page |
|---|---|
| World Flora Online | wfo-0000391804 |
| KEW | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:847165-1 |
| Open Tree Of Life | 3886648 |
| IPNI | 847165-1 |
| GBIF | 3633385 |
| Wikipedia | Platysace_maxwellii |
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