Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 3:61 (1980).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Small shrub c. 25 cm high; branches slender; articles narrow-cylindrical, c. 10 mm long; lobes rounded, shortly acuminate, entire; spikes terminal, narrow-cylindrical, to 80 mm long, c. 4 mm diam.; bract-pairs cup-shaped, loosely imbricate when dry; lobes obtuse and shortly acuminate.

Flowers obscured, adherent to each other and to the upper bract, steeply ascending; perianth succulent, divided on the abaxial surface into lateral halves; apex dorsiventrally compressed; fruitlets eventually free; perianth weakly pithy, separating into lateral halves.

Pericarp membranous; seed ovate, c. 1.2 mm long; testa membranous, minutely tuberculate over the embryo, palebrown.

Distribution:  Found apparently on freshwater claypans and on white clay soil.   Qld. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: Jan.

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