Citation: F. Muell., Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 9:370, t. 11 (1857).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Josephinia burr.

Description:
Unpleasantly aromatic ?annual, more or less erect to spreading, c. 20-60 cm high, covered by simple moderately long eglandular hairs and subsessile glandular hairs; lower leaves with a petiole 1-5 cm long, with a blade 3-6 cm long, 3-partite, 3-lobed or simple, the base attenuate, the segments elliptic to obovate-elliptic, coarsely irregularly sinuate or bluntly dentate, bluntly acute; upper leaves shortly petiolate and with shorter simple blades.

Pedicels 2-5 mm long; sepals 1.5-3 mm long, densely villous; corolla 6-20 mm long along the upper side, shortly lobed, purple to pink; fruit broad-ellipsoid, 8-12 mm long, villous.

Image source: fig. 605 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p 603.

Distribution:  On sand to clayey soil, on open sandy plains, at the base of hills by rock holes or on creek banks; rare. S.Aust.: NW, LE.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Jan. — March.

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

Biology: No text

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