Citation: Endl., Stirp. Herb. Hügel. 13 (1838).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Intricately branched spinescent shrub to 2.5 m tall, sometimes almost leafless, pubescent with erect simple glandular hairs or tomentose with antrorse simple or sparingly branched nonglandular hairs (when scattered glandular hairs usually also present), rarely glabrous; leaves at first borne singly but soon replaced by axillary clusters of 3-10 leaves, sessile, obovate or narrowly so, 1.5-14 (rarely to 23) x 0.5-4 mm.

Flowers in clusters of 2-6 borne terminally at the leaf-clusters and subtended by a cluster of bracts; pedicel 2-6 mm long, pubescent or rarely glabrous; calyx 2-4.5 mm long, pubescent or rarely glabrous; corolla 7-20 mm in total length, pale-yellow to greenish-yellow with purple-brown or maroon striations in the throat, glabrous or sparsely pubescent outside, glabrous inside; corolla lobes 2.5-15 mm long.

Capsule ovoid to ovoid-ellipsoid, 5-9 mm long; seeds brown, 1.3-2 mm long.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available