Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 2:27 (1975).

Synonymy: Kochia pentagona R. Anderson, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 51:385 (1926).

Common name: Hairy (or slender) bluebush, slender-fissure-weed.

Description:
Prostrate to decumbent perennial with a small woody base and a long fleshy tap root, c. 10 mm high; branches woolly; leaves alternate, linear, 7-12 rarely to 20 mm long, appressed-villous.

Flowers solitary, bisexual, densely woolly-villous.

Fruiting perianth woolly-villous, discoid, more or less pentagonal in outline, 2.5-4 mm diam. (without indumentum), cartilaginous to crustaceous; lower surface convex continuous with the narrow horizontal rim (wing) which is sometimes divided into 5 short truncate lobes; upper surface raised to a thick hard more or less pentagonal ridge or platform formed from the convex bases of the perianth lobes, centre sunken.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 272.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: MU.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: Aug. — Sept. (few records).

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

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