Citation: S. Moore, J. Linn. Soc.(Bot.) 45:201 (1920). Shrub, 1 to more than 2 m high, with numerous slender erect branches, the young stems tuberculate; leaves usually very narrowly obovate, 5-12 mm long, silky, glabrescent, flat or with the margins somewhat incurved, and with a small apical point.

Synonymy: L. roei sensu A.S. George in Jessop, Fl. Cent. Aust. 257, fig. 337 (1981).

Common name: None

Description:
Flowers 6-10 mm diam., borne on very short axillary shoots; bracts broad, red-brown and very deciduous; hypanthium silky, expanded in the upper part and gradually tapering to the base; sepals c. 1.5 mm long, long-deltoid; petals obovate to broadly elliptic, white; stamens c. 1 mm long; ovary 3-celled, with c. 20 ovules in 4 rows in each cell.

Fruit c. 3 mm diam., readily deciduous, the outer surface papery but close; fertile seeds c. 1 mm long, ovate-cuneate, their surface reticulate.

Distribution:  On sand-plain. S.Aust.: NW.   W.Aust. 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

Biology: Not Applicable

Author: Not yet available