Citation: Hook. f., London J. Bot. 6:464 (1847).

Synonymy: A. oligantha F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 9:187 (1875), nom. illegit.; A. scoparia sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 798 (1957), non Hook. f.

Common name: Common woodruff.

Description:
Perennials with a slightly woody base, with branches rarely longer than 20 cm, often much-branched, erect to decumbent; stems quadrangular, rarely terete later, more or less covered with slightly bent hairs; leaves and stipules about equal, in whorls of 5 or 6, linear, rarely linear-lanceolate, 2-12 mm long, acute or cuspidate, with a terminal hair usually slightly recurved rarely wearing off with age, usually with short straight hairs along the margin and the central vein on the undersurface, erect to spreading and often reflexed later.

Inflorescence 1-3 terminal dichasia each with 3 or more flowers; corolla white and sparsely papillate inside.

Fruit 3-4 mm long, deeply lobed but usually not breaking apart.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 619.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Oct.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: Records of A. scoparia from S.Aust. are based on wrong interpretations of A. conferta which often also has a colourless terminal hair on the leaves but, unlike those of A. scoparia, the apex is usually cuspidate and recurved at least when young (see Burbidge & Gray (1970) Flora of the A.C.T.).

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