Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 2:48 (1975).

Synonymy: Kochia ovata Ising, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 78:112 (1955).

Common name: None

Description:
Small densely branched shrub to 0.3 m high; branches densely woolly; leaves small, alternate, sessile, erect or appressed, narrowly ovate to broadly triangular, 2-5 mm long, loosely woolly.

Flowers solitary, bisexual.

Fruiting perianth small, pale-gold when dry, glabrous apart from the woolly upper perianth; tube hemispherical, c. 1 mm high, c. 1.5 mm diam., woody, smooth (apart from the radicular ridge); wing simple, entire, with no radial slit, horizontal, 4-6 rarely 2.5 mm diam., translucent; upper perianth woody, shortly woolly.

	Maireana ovata fruit
Image source: fig 160c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Found on sandy rises and eroded slopes of stony hills. S.Aust.: NW, LE, FR, EA.   N.T.; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/ or fruits: July — Oct.

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

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