Citation: J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 55:141, fig. 7 (1931).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Annuals, with several decumbent branches to 15 cm long mainly from the base, with a tap root, sparsely covered with forward-directed usually appressed hairs with a broad base particularly well developed on the leaves; leaves alternate, with few clustered narrowly oblanceolate-spathulate subpetiolate but slightly sheathing ones in the basal rosette, becoming widely spaced, sessile, oblanceolate, ellipticoblong to lanceolate higher up, 1-4 x 0.2-0.3, acute or obtuse.

Inflorescence terminal, with 1 rarely 2 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 mm long when fruiting, with lobes lanceolate, bluntly acute, covered with fine forward-directed appressed hairs; corolla tubular, white?, glabrous except for papillose saccate protrusions in the throat, c. 2 mm long; lobes oblong, c. 0.8 mm long, with a rounded apex; stamens inserted below the throat of the corolla tube, with anthers almost sessile, usually ovoid, c. 0.5 mm long, with a mucronate appendage; ovary 4-lobed, with a style inserted near the middle, to 0.5 mm long, with a terminal capitate stigma.

Mericarps ovoid, with the outer surface obliquely compressed but with a spongy crest vertically along the middle, as well as surrounded by a spongy rim with margins incurved, with ovate scar of attachment on the lower third continued into a ventral vertical ridge to the apex, with all inner surfaces with short hooked hairs, pale-brown.

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

Published illustration: Ising (1965) Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 89:286, fig. 1.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: GT. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept.

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