Citation: A.J. Scott, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 89:113 (1978).

Synonymy: Bassia intricata R. Anderson, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 48:340 (1923).

Common name: Poverty-bush, tangled poverty-bush.

Description:
Intricately branched dwarf shrub to 40 cm high, glabrous apart from the woolly-pilose leaf axils; leaves clavate and c. 5 mm long to slender and semiterete and to 10-15 mm long, acute.

Flowers solitary perianth glabrous apart from the woolly-ciliate perianth-segments; stamens 5.

Fruiting perianth hard, erect and appressed to the branch, persistent attachment very oblique; tube semicylindrical, dorsiventrally compressed, c. 3 mm high; limb erect, woolly-ciliate; spines 3 + 2, spreading to recurred, slender, 5-15 mm long (the inner of the radicular pair shorter); seed and radicle erect.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 252.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP. S.Aust.: LE, GT, FR, EA, EP, MU.   N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: April — Dec.

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

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