Citation: A.S. George, Fl. Aust. 8:392 (1982).

Synonymy: Didymotheca tepperi F. Muell. ex H. Walter, Bot. Jb. suppl. 85:40, fig. 65 (1906); D. cupressiformis H. Walter, Pflanzenr. 39:66 (1909).

Common name: None

Description:
Shrubs to 2 m tall, often obconical; leaves linear, 8-30 X c.1 mm, acute to pointed, terete, usually spreading.

Male flowers 1 to rarely 3 on short racemes, with often recurred pedicels 1-2 mm long, c. 3 mm across at anthesis, with the calyx distinctly lobed and the lobes acute, with 7-10 anthers in 1 whorl; female flowers 1 or 2 in very abbreviated racemes, with recurved pedicels 1-2 mm long, with the calyx distinctly lobed and the lobes acute, with 1 or 2 carpels each with a long stigma spreading above the lobed ovary.

Fruit obliquely ovate to almost semicircular in side view, with often undulate transverse ridges from the centre, with a flattened aril wrapped around much of the seed.

Image source: fig. 103d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Growing usually associated with sand dunes. S.Aust.: NW, LE.   W.Aust.; N.T. Conservation status: native Flowering time: June — Sept.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: Didymotheca cupressiformis is based on an early collection from Lake Eyre. This is the only record from S.Aust. and has not been confirmed by modem collections. The fact that one is dealing in this species with a reduced inflorescence is often only shown by the jointed stalk on which the individual flowers are borne.

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