Citation: Ising, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 89:288, fig. 3 (1965).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Annuals, with few to many more or less erect branches to 20 cm long mainly from the base, with a tap root, covered with forward-directed more or less appressed hairs with a broad base particularly well developed on the leaves; leaves alternate, with a few clustered, narrowly oblanceolate-spathulate, subpetiolate but slightly sheathing in the basal rosette becoming widely spaced, sessile, oblanceolate, elliptic to lanceolate higher up, 1-4 x 0.2-0.5 cm, bluntly acute.

Inflorescence terminal, with usually 1 rarely 2 or 3 scorpioid cymes, with flowers densely clustered and subsessile but becoming widely separated and pedicellate when fruiting with leaf-like bracts; sepals connate to one-third of their length, 1.5-2 mm long or to 3.5 mm when fruiting, with lobes lanceolate, acute to bluntly acute, covered with fine forward-directed appressed hairs; corolla tubular, white, glabrous except for papillose saccate protrusions in the throat, 2-2.5 mm long; lobes oblong, c. 1 mm long, with a rounded apex; stamens inserted below the throat of the corolla tube, with anthers almost sessile, ellipsoid to ovoid, c. 0.5 mm long, with a mucronate appendage; ovary 4-lobed, with style inserted near the middle, c. 0.5 mm long, stout, with terminal capitate stigma.

Mericarps ovoid, with the outer surface oblique compressed and surrounded by a raised spongy rim with margins incurved, smooth except for a few clusters of hooked spines, with an ovate scar of attachment on the lower third continued into a ventral vertical ridge to the apex, smooth, a pale yellowish-brown.

	Mericarp in two views.
Image source: fig. 536A in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept., Oct.

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

Biology: No text

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