Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 3:39 (1980).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Shrub to 70 cm high; branchlets slender; articles bluntly lobed, entire; spikes terminal, slender, 30-80 mm long, c. 3-5 mm diam.

Flowers free, somewhat ascending; apex rounded; lateral lobes short; abaxial lobe semicircular, outside the lateral lobes; perianth and ovary succulent.

Fruiting perianth shrivelled, pithy or chartaceous at the apex, membranous towards the base; pericarp membranous, fused to the perianth; seed ovate, c. 1 mm long; testa crustaceous, ridged over the embryo, otherwise smooth, a dark reddish-brown; fruitlets shed entire, the seed enclosed by and adherent to the pericarp.

Published illustration: Wilson (1980) Nuytsia 3:92.

Distribution:  Usually found around saline springs. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: April — Sept.

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