Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Nuytsia 2:51 (1975).

Synonymy: Kochia villosa Lindley in T.L. Mitchell, J. Trop. Austral. 91 (1848).

Common name: Silky (or common) bluebush.

Description:
Open shrub to 0.5 m high; branches slender, minutely to loosely woolly; leaves alternate, flattened, linear to very narrow-oblong or narrow-obovate, acute, 5-12 mm long, appressed-villous.

Flowers solitary or paired, bisexual, glabrous except for the ciliate lobes.

Fruiting perianth brown when dry; tube broadly turbinate, faintly costate, c. 1 mm high, thin-walled and readily crushed; wing simple, horizontal (infolded when young), papery, with a single radial (radicular) slit, 7-10 mm diam., with dark-brown anastomosing veins (when dry); upper perianth flat, glabrous or sparsely pilose.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 276.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: April — Sept.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: A variable taxon that may consist of more than one species.

Author: Not yet available