Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 3:56 (1980).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Decumbent to erect shrub 0.2-1 m high; articles broadly obovoid, c. 5 mm long, glossy or dull, bluntly to acutely lobed, apiculate; margin entire or denticulate.

Spikes sessile or terminal on the lateral branchlets, continuing growth vegetatively, articles 1-10, similar at flowering to the vegetative articles; flowers coalescent, almost completely obscured by the bracts; perianth with thick lateral walls; apex strongly dorsiventrally flattened; lateral lobes large, conduplicate and imbricate; abaxial lobe minute.

Fruiting spike intercalary; fruitlets fused laterally to each other; perianth with leathery or crustaceous lateral walls, pericarp free from the perianth, spongy to crustaceous; seed ovoid, c. 1.2 mm long, testa membranous, pale-brown, concentrically granular over the embryo; seed released enclosed in the pericarp through the longitudinal splitting of the perianth.

Distribution:  Either coastal or on the margin of salt lakes.   W.Aust.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: probably all months.

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