Citation: Brittan, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 95:109 (1971).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial, with more or less horizontal rhizome c. 8-10 mm diam., with stiff roots without tubers; radical leaves produced with new shoots, usually absent at flowering time; stems to 30 cm tall, rigid, terete, ridged, with short stiff hairs on the ridges, branching monopodial with short internodes c. 8-10 mm long, giving a distinctive zig-zag appearance, older stems straight with internodes c. 5 cm long, some sterile bracts in the upper part of the stem.

Umbels terminal, 2- or 3-flowered, 1 or 2 outer bracts similar to stem bracts, usually with hirsute veins, inner bracts c. 2.5 mm long, mostly membranous, with 1-3 dark veins; pedicels c. 7 mm long; outer perianth-segments 10-11 mm long, narrow-lanceolate, 2-2.5 mm wide, usually with 5 distinct veins on the back, inner perianth-segments more or less circular including fimbriae; stamens 3 long (c. 6 mm) and 3 short (c. 4 mm).

Capsule cylindrical.

Published illustration: Brittan (1971) Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust., fig. 1.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: KI. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Dec.

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

Biology: No text

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