Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 2:46 (1975).

Synonymy: Kochia villosa Lindley var. tenuifolia F. Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Aust. 5:182 (1870); K. tomentosa F. Muell. var. tenuifolia (Benth.)J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 197 (1924); Enchylaena decalvans Gand., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 66:224 ( 1919).

Common name: Black cotton-bush.

Description:
Tufted to bushy shrub to 50 cm high; branches slender, striate, sparsely woolly or glabrous, often woolly in the leaf axils; leaves alternate, slender and terete to narrow-fusiform, 5-8 mm long, fleshy, glabrous.

Flowers solitary, bisexual, glabrous.

Fruiting perianth glabrous; tube shallowly hemispherical, c. 3 mm diam., thin-walled; wing thin, horizontal, simple, c. 8 mm diam., with fine pale-brown anastomosing veins when dry, entire except for a single radial slit; upper perianth flat, with somewhat fleshy lobes.

	Maireana decalvans fruit
Image source: fig. 159j in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 266.

Distribution:  Found in heavy seasonally waterlogged soil. S.Aust.: NL, MU, SL.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: Nov. — May.

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

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