Citation: E.C. Nelson, Brunonia 1:378 (1978).

Synonymy: Adenanthos sericea sensu Tare, Hdbk Fl. Extratrop. S. Aust. 227 (1890), auct. non Labill.;Adenanthos sericea Labill. var.? brevifolia Benth., Fl. Aust. 5:354 (1870); Adenanthos barbata F. Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Aust. 5:354 (1870), nom. invalid.

Common name: None

Description:
Prostrate to erect shrub to 1.5 perhaps to 3 m tall, without a lignotuber; branchlets erect, tomentose, glabrescent; leaves densely clustered at branchlet apices, scattered below, 10-17 mm long including the 1.5-3 mm long petiole, with a persistent ash-white tomentum, initially trichotomous; final segments 7-9, terete, c. 0.5 mm diam..

Inflorescences 1-flowered, usually 2 or 3 in groups; peduncles 2-4 mm long, subtended by a tiny ovate bract; involucral flower-subtending bracts 7-10, sericeous outside; flowers exceeding the surrounding leaves; perianth 1.8-2.6 cm long, red-pink, rarely yellow, white-tomentose outside, glabrous but for the laminae inside; anthers 1.5-2 mm long; pistil 2.5-3 cm long, glabrous, pollen-presenter 1.2-1.8 mm long.

	Adenanthos macropodiana twig, flower with bracts, leaf from branch apex, perianth-segment and pistil with glands.
Image source: fig 66a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  In sandy lateritic and calcareous soils in sclerophyllous shrublands. Conservation status: native Flowering time: all year.

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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