Citation: Reisseck & F. Muell. ex Reisseck, Linnaea 29:294 (1858).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Rough cryptandra.

Description:
Small shrub 20-30 cm high, the branchlets rather rough with stellate hairs; leaves clustered, terete, 3-6 mm long, c. 0.5 mm thick, more or less glabrous, margins revolute, concealing the undersurface.

flowers sessile, 1 or 2-8 in terminal heads surrounded by leafy bracts; flower tubular, 4-6 mm long, subtended at the base by 4 or 5 lanceolate-acuminate ciliate brown bracts nearly half that length, silky and stellate-hairy outside; sepals much shorter than the floral tube; style nearly as long as the flower, stellate-hairy toward the base, dilated downward into the conical summit of the half-inferior ovary.

Distribution:  Reported usually from swampy country. S.Aust.: SL, KI. Conservation status: native Flowering time: most of the 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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