Citation: F. Muell., Victorian Nat. 7:66 (1890).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Cushion knawel.

Description:
Probably annual, to c. 5 cm high; leaves linear, rigid and slightly pungent, c. 10 mm long.

Flowers on short but distinct pedicels, few in sessile axillary and terminal clusters; fruiting calyx c. 4 mm long; the calyx lobes lanceolate, green, and longer than the tube; stamens 2, bract linear.

Capsule conical; seeds c. 0.9 mm long, c. 0.5 mm wide.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of Western New South Wales, p. 304.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, MU.   N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Oct.

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