Citation: Orch., Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 93:101 (1969).

Synonymy: A. ovina Cunn. subsp, maxima Bitter var. retrorsumpilosa Bitter, Biblthca Bot. 74:69 (1911).

Common name: None

Description:
Stipules 1-4 mm long.

Spike unbranched; stamens 4 or 5, 1-3 mm long.

Fruits almost obpyramidal, strongly longitudinally ridged, densely spreading-pilose; 3-12 longer spines with swollen bases forming ridges, 4-30 shorter spines often slender.

	Acaena echinata var. retrosumpilosa
Image source: fig 240h in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:    W.Aust.: Vic.; Tas. Flowering time: July — Nov.

Biology: No text

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