Citation: J. Black, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust. 36:22 (1912).

Synonymy: Urocarpus muricatus (J. Black) Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 1:207 (1971). , Asterolasia asteriscophora

Common name: None

Description:
Small slender shrub to 1 m high; branchlets with a dense silvery- and ferruginous-stellate tomentum; leaves with petioles less than 1 mm long; lamina oblong, 7-14 mm, muricate above, stellate-tomentose below; margin entire, recurved and causing the lower surface to become noticably concave; apex rounded.

Inflorescence terminal, a 1-3-flowered subsessile umbellike cluster, or flowers solitary in the leaf axils; bracts not subpetaloid; calyx minute; petals 5-6 mm long, yellow; stamens 10; ovary stellate-pubescent; stigma fleshy, subglobular.

Fruit and seed not seen.

Published illustration: J. Black (1948) Fl. S. Aust., fig. 667 as Asterolasia muricata.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL, KI. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Nov.

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

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