Citation: Benth., Fl. Aust. 3:530 (1867).

Synonymy: Ethulia cunninghamii Hook. in T.L. Mitchell, J. Trop. Austral. 62 (1848); Ethuliopsis dioica F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 2:155 ( 1861 ).

Common name: Tall nut-heads.

Description:
Perennial herb or subshrub 10-40 cm high, polygamo-monoecious; stems erect, divaricately branched, glabrous, becoming woody near the base; leaves alternate, narrowly elliptical to lanceolate, broad-based acute or subacute, 1-8 cm long, 3-14 mm wide, serrate to irregularly dentate or the uppermost subentire, glabrous or slightly scabrous with minute crisped stiff hairs.

Capitula shortly pedunculate in rather dense terminal panicles, globular, c. 3 mm diam., more or less unisexual; involucre c. 3 mm long; bracts oblong or obovate, obtuse, glabrous; female head with numerous fertile female florets, sometimes with fewer sterile bisexual florets in the centre

Achenes cylindrical, 0.7-1 mm long, ribbed, glabrous; pappus absent; male head with fewer florets, mostly bisexual, sterile, tubular; corolla exceeding the involucre, white to pale-mauve; achenes abortive, smooth; pappus of 2-5 weak barbellate bristles, shorter than the corolla.

Distribution:  On clay soils subject to flooding.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: most of the year.

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

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