Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Fl. Aust. 4:328 (1984).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Intricately branched rounded perennial to 30 cm high, glabrous apart from the axillary pubescence; leaves slender-terete, 10-20 mm long, fleshy.

Flowers solitary.

Perianth glabrous apart from the woolly-ciliate margin of the lobes; stamens 3 rarely 4; fruiting perianth woody, glabrous; tube oblong-obcuneate, dorsiventrally compressed and with a few blunt ribs, c. 3 mm high, rounded at the base; limb incurved; attachment oblique, flat, circular, c. 1.5 mm diam.; spines 3, (or sometimes 4 when a small inner radicular spine is present), slender, 8-15 mm long, more or less horizontally spreading, 1 lateral, 1 abaxial, and 1 radicular spine which is directed somewhat adaxially or is curved around the branch; seed erect.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA, EP, MU.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: all months.

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