Muehlenbeckia axillaris

Muehlenbeckia axillaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Polygonaceae
Genus:	Muehlenbeckia
Species:	M. axillaris
Binomial name
Muehlenbeckia axillaris (Hook. f.) Walp.

Muehlenbeckia axillaris (creeping wire vine, sprawling wirevine, matted lignum) is a low shrub, forming wiry mats up to about 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) in diameter, native to New Zealand, and Tasmania, New South Wales and Victoria in Australia.^[1] It has thin, red-brown stems, with squarish to roundish leaves that are less than 1 centimetre (0.39 in) in diameter, and 2–4 millimetres (0.079–0.157 in) thick. Flowers are yellowish-white, 4–8 millimetres (0.16–0.31 in) in diameter, and borne in groups of up to 3 in the axils. Fruit is black, shiny, and up to 3.5 millimetres (0.14 in) long.

Synonyms

• Pseudanthus tasmanicus

References

• Gen. Pl. Suppl. 4(2): 51 (1848)

External links

• Threatened Flora of Tasmania
• GBIF entry
• USDA PLANTS entry

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