Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 2:26 (1975).

Synonymy: Kochia lanosa Lindley in T.L. Mitchell, J. Trop. Austral. 88 (1848).

Common name: None

Description:
Small divaricately branched shrub to 0.5 m high; branches woolly; leaves alternate, elliptic to narrow-obovate, c. 4 mm long on the upper (fruiting) branches, 10-20 mm long on the lower branches, silky-pubescent.

Flowers solitary, densely woolly.

Fruiting perianth sparsely woolly, leathery to crustaceous; tube slightly convex; wing simple, horizontal, 7-12 mm diam., with a single radial slit; upper perianth with 4 + 2 erect processes alternating with the perianth lobes (the contiguous pair placed either side of the radicular slit); processes linear to subulate, 3-4 mm long.

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

Distribution:  Found in sandy and loamy soils. S.Aust.: NW, GT, FR.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: May — June (few records).

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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