Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 490 (1810).

Synonymy: Frankenia cymbifolia Hook., Hook. Ic. 3, t. 265 (1840). , Wilsonia humilis

Common name: Silky wilsonia.

Description:
Prostrate slender much-branched shrub, hoary with dense appressed 2-branched hairs; leaves sessile, concave, broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate or oblong, crowded, imbricately arranged and usually distichous, 1.5-4 mm long, obtuse.

Flowers 5- rarely 6-merous, pedicels more or less absent; calyx tubular, 4-6 mm long, with short triangular acute teeth one-third to one-quarter the length of the hoary tube; corolla salver-shaped, white, tube equalling the calyx, with linear ovate acute lobes 2-2.5 mm long; stamens and style barely exserted; filaments attached just below the throat; ovary 1- or 2-celled; style divided at about the middle into 2 branches, stigmas capitate.

	Flowering branch.
Image source: fig. 529D in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Hooker (1840) Hook. Ic. 3:t. 265, as Frankenia cymbifolia.

Distribution:  Grows in coastal and subcoastal saline marshes or brackish swamps; sometimes in similar situations inland. S.Aust.: NU, EP, NL, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Dec.

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

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