Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 3:47 (1980).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Erect shrub to 1 m high; branches slender, erect; articles obovoid to cylindrical, 5-10 mm long, entire, slightly glaucous.

Spikes terminal, slender, cylindrical, to 50 mm long, 3.5-5 mm diam.; flowers almost free, slightly ascending; apex truncate and broadly oblong; perianth succulent; abaxial lobe large and semicircular, overlapping the lateral lobes.

Fruiting perianth not or scarcely exceeding the bracts, succulent and eventually spongy, shrivelled on drying or firm and papery on the outside; pericarp membranous and fused to the perianth; fruitlets eventually tearing away from the axis exposing the seed at its base; seed suborbicular, c. 1.5 mm long, white or pale-fawn when dry; outer testa raised on the margin to form 5-7 concentric scale-like ribs with transverse corrugations.

Distribution:  Found in slightly saline soil. Possibly an introduction in S.Aust.   W.Aust. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: March — May (2 records).

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