Citation: A.J. Scott, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 89:114 (1978).

Synonymy: Bassia ventricosa J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 46:566 (1922).

Common name: Salt copperburr.

Description:
Compact perennial c. 30 cm high; branches loosely woolly; leaves slender, terete or semiterete, 10-15 mm long, appressed-villous to glabrous.

Flowers solitary; perianth tomentose; stamens 5.

fruiting perianth pilose; attachment small, circular, c. 0.5 mm diam.; tube barrel-shaped to shortly cylindrical, rounded at the base, c. 3 mm high and wide, faintly ribbed; limb erect, conical, c. 1.5 mm high, not hardened; spines 2 q- 1 or 2 + 2 (rarely 3 q- 2); the 2 major spines laterally placed, ascending to divergent, c. 5 mm long; the radicular spines 1 or 2, adaxially placed, up to 1 mm long or reduced to a small tubercle; seed horizontal; radicle ascending

	Sclerolaena ventricosa
Image source: fig. 170q 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. 259.

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

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: Bassia lanata Ising, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 93:121 (1969) is possibly a hybrid involving S. ventricosa: syn: S. lanata (Ising)A.J. Scott, Reprium Spec. nov. Regni veg. 89:113 (1978).

Author: Not yet available