Purple Trachymene
Flower
Murray Mallee Region
Purple Trachymene
Fruit
 
                      
Purple Trachymene (Trachymene cyanopetala)Class: Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida)
Order: Carrots (Apiales)
Family: Ivy (Araliaceae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Purple Trachymene (Trachymene cyanopetala)
This Photo:     🔍Flower & Fruit🔎

Thank you (PennywortMan ) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Riverland and possibly elsewhere
Named after the colour of the fruit. It has small white flowers, heavily lobed leaves. It can be a small compact plant or a lanky, spreading one. The fruit is quite spiny looking.

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This species is classed as LC (Least Concern) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)