Citation: F. Muell., J. Trans. Vict. Inst. 2:75 (1858).

Synonymy: Sclerolaena biflora R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 410 (1810); Bassia biflora (R. Br.)F. Muell., Syst. Census Aust. Pl. 1:30 (1882).

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial c. 25 cm high; branches woolly; leaves slender, semiterete, 5-10 mm long, woolly.

Flowers 2 or 3 (in S. Aust.), united into a small woolly ball.

Fruiting perianths united in their lower half into a globular to slightly cylindrical thick-walled woody infructescence 6-10 mm diam. and deciduous as a whole; base rounded, deeply concave; covered in a woolly or villous indumentum; upper half of the perianths cylindrical, c. 3 mm long including the 5 incurved lobes, woody; spines absent or if present arising from and resembling the perianth lobes; infructescence freely shed when mature.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

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

Biology: No text

Key to Infraspecific taxa:

1. Fruiting perianth woolly	var. biflorus 1a.
1. Fruiting perianth covered with long villous hairs	var. villosus 1b.

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