Citation: A.J. Scott, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 89:115 (1978).

Synonymy: Kochia stelligera (F. Muell.) Benth., Fl. Aust. 5:189 (1870); Bassia stelligera (F. Muell.)F. Muell., Iconogr. Austral. Salsolac. Pl. 7:t. 68 (1891).

Common name: Star-fruit bassia, star copperburr, starred bluebush.

Description:
Straggly shrub to 0.5 m high; branches woolly; leaves linear, 5-10 mm long, woolly-villous.

Fruiting perianth subglobular, hard, c. 2.5 mm diam., glabrous apart from the woolly ciliate margins to the lobes; wing rigid, c. 3 mm diam. (including spines), margin from crenate-dentate to c. 11-spined.

	Stelligera endecaspinis twig and 3 views of the fruit.
Image source: fig. 172 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. 257.

Distribution:    Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. 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

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