Citation: Cunn. ex Endl., Enum. Pl.Hügel 15 (1837) subsp. difformis.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Small-leaved wax-flower.

Description:
Small shrub to 1 m; branchlets glandular-warty, puberulent; leaves with small black stipules; petioles less than 1 mm long; lamina more or less terete to ovate, 2-4 x 1-2 mm, obtuse, thick, glabrous, glandular-warty on margins.

Inflorescences terminal, 1-4-flowered; sepals obtuse, c. 1 mm long, glandular-warty, ciliolate; petals elliptic, 4-5 mm long, white; stamens with filaments flattened, densely ciliate; carpels 1-2 mm high, sparsely pilose; stigma lobed.

Cocci erect, 4-5 mm high, beaked, glandular-warty; seed 2.5-4 mm long, transversely striate, black.

Published illustration: Cunningham et at. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 445.

Distribution:    Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Oct.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: A species of 2 subspecies of mainly inland south-eastern Australia; only 1 of these in S.Aust.

Author: Not yet available