Citation: J.H. Willis, Victorian Nat. 73:196 (1957).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Shrub to 0.6 m; branchlets silvery- to ferrugineous-scaly; leaves subsessile; lamina linear, 4-12 x c. 1 mm, strongly revolute, obtuse, upper surface glabrous, lower surface scaly.

Inflorescence terminal, a 1-6-flowered umbel-like cluster; pedicels 3-7 mm long, thick and broadening towards the apex; calyx 3-4 mm long, scaly, silvery at the base to red-brown at the apex, glabrous inside, lobes c. 2 mm long; petals obovate, c. 5 x 2.5 mm, yellow, silvery- or ferruginous-scaly outside; anthers yellow; gynoecium 5-carpellate, carpels c. 1 mm high, silvery-scaly; style coiled and recurred in bud and remaining so during and after anthesis, c. 2 mm long; stigma minute.

Cocci 3-5 mm high, transversely corrugated, scaly; apex rounded; seeds 2-2.5 mm long, finely corrugate, black.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SE.   Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Sept.

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