Citation: A.J. Scott, Reprlum nov. Spec. Regni veg. 89:118 (1978).

Synonymy: Threlkeldia proceriflora F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 8:38 (1873).

Common name: Soda bush, desert glasswort.

Description:
Small glabrous or sparsely villous shrub; branches brittle; leaves slender, 10-20 mm long, c. 1 mm diam.

Fruiting perianth tubular to bluntly ellipsoid, c. 8 mm long, c. 2.5 mm diam., glabrous to villous; wall thick, initially succulent outside later spongy, woody within; base oblique, firmly attached to the branch; apex produced into a thin very shortly 5-spined cup-shaped structure obscuring the small lobes.

	Neobassia proceriflora twig and fruiting perianth
Image source: fig. 162b 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. 281.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, GT, FR. S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA.   N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: May — Oct.

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

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