Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 3:58 (1980).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Shrub to 50 cm high; articles broadly barrel-shaped, c. 7 mm long, dull to glaucous; lobes rounded (rarely acuminate), entire.

Spikes terminal or sessile and axillary, conical to cylindrical, 10-35 mm long; 3-5 rarely to 9 mm diam., outline undulate; bract pairs short, closely imbricate, convex, margin undulate, entire; flowers totally enclosed, more or less free, steeply ascending, strongly dorsiventrally flattened at the apex; perianth fleshy but soon becoming brittle; lateral lobes large, conduplicate and imbricate.

Fruitlets free, dorsiventrally flattened; perianth thin, usually crustaceous, glossy; pericarp membranous or crustaceous at the apex, absent towards the base; seed ovoid, c. 1 mm long; testa thin, pale-brown; bract pairs eventually deciduous, the fruitlets falling entire.

Distribution:  Found in saline or gypseous soil.   W.Aust.; N.T. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: all year.

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