Citation: Brittan, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 102:55 (1978).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial, with small (5-10 mm diam.) rhizome with stiff fibrous non-tuberous roots; plant leafless at maturity; leaves 5-7 cm long, ciliate margined, only produced at the base of new aerial shoots; stems several per rhizome, erect, 20-30 cm tall, monopodially or pseudodichotomously branched, with 2 or 3 branches from some nodes, probably the result of new branches produced in successive years; stems terete, ridged, multiple ridges near the base, 4 or 5 in the upper parts, with tuberculate hairs on the ridges.

Umbels terminal, 1-5-flowered, bracts 2-several, 1.5-2 mm long, broadly deltoid; pedicels 8-10 mm long, erect in flower and fruit, articulated just above the level of the apices of the bracts; perianth-segments 11-12.5 mm long, outer 3 linear, c. 3 mm wide, 4- or 5-nerved; inner 3, elliptic, c. 4 mm wide, fimbriate, fimbriae 3-3.5 mm long; stamens 6, anthers dehiscing by terminal pore; outer 3 anthers straight, twisted, c. 3 mm long; inner 3 anthers curved, twisted, 6-7 mm long; filaments c. 2.5 mm long; ovary sessile, 2 ovules per cell.

Capsule cylindrical, 5-6 x 3-4 mm; seeds black, with a yellow aril.

Published illustration: Brittan (1978) Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 102:fig. 1.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Nov. — 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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