Citation: F. Muell., Pl. Indig. Col. Vic. 1:15 (1862).

Synonymy: Pleurandra stricta R. Br. ex DC., Reg. Veg. Syst. Nat. 1:422 (1817); H. stricta (R. Br. ex DC.)F. Muell. var. oblonga J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 49:274 ( 1925); H. australis Wakef., Victorian Nat. 72:120 (1955).

Common name: None

Description:
Leaves rather crowded, linear-oblong, 4-8 x 2-2.5 mm, obtuse, very scabrous above with short simple or forked hairs often seated on tubercles (only stellate hairs according to Willis (1973) A Handbook to plants in Victoria), stellate-hairy below with a very broad not depressed midrib.

Peduncles c. 5 mm long; sepals shining inside, invested with tubercle-based stellate hairs only.

Carpels with 4 ovules in each.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: The above description is taken from J. Black (1952) as H. stricta var. oblonga and Willis (1973) as H. australis. Hoogland (1974) Kew Bull. 29:156 cited H. stricta var. oblonga as a synonym. The type of that variety is the only specimen known to me from S. Aust. to have been identified as belonging to this species despite the statements by both Hoogland and Willis that the species does occur in S. Aust. The type of var. oblonga shows characters somewhat intermediate between H. riparia and H. aspera and all three occur on KI. H. stricta also occurs in Vic.

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