Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Fl. Aust. 4:327 (1984).

Synonymy: Bassia spinosa Ewart & O.B. Davies, Fl. North. Terr. 95 (1917); Sclerolaena spinosa (Ewart & O.B. Davies) A.J. Scott, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 89:114 (1978); B. eremaea Ising, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 88:93 (1964), nom. illegit.

Common name: None

Description:
Rounded shrub c. 30 cm high; branches brittle, tomentose; leaves narrow-obovate to obovate, 10-15 mm long, obtuse, fleshy, tomentose, the floral ones often clustered.

Flowers solitary, slightly sunken into the branch; perianth cup-shaped, densely tomentose outside; fruiting perianth urceolate, c. 4 mm long, woody, tomentose, becoming embedded in the woody branch axis; lobes membranous, erect; spines arising from beneath the perianth lobes but usually coalescing to form a stout adaxial 3-pronged spine 3-6 mm long and a shorter abaxial 2-pronged spine the fused bases of which become flattened.

Fruits irregularly clustered and persistent.

	Eremophea spinosa twig, hair, fruit and fruit with hair removed
Image source: fig. 157a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: A.J. Ewart & O.B. Davies (1917) Flora of the Northern Territory, t. 12, figs 1-3.

Distribution:  Occurs in Acacia aneura scrub, also on calcareous hills and in sandy soil on eroded flats. S.Aust.: NW, LE.   W.Aust.; N.T. Conservation status: native Flowering time: not known for S.Aust.

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

Biology: The irregularly shaped woody masses containing several fruits which occur along the branches appear to be the natural form taken by this plant.

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