Citation: Chinn., J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 2:141 (1980).

Synonymy: Bassia albolanata Ising, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 88:95 (1964); Sclerolaena albolanata (Ising)A.J. Scott, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 89:111 (1978).

Common name: None

Description:
Shrub to 40 cm high; branches slender, densely white-woolly; leaves spreading, narrow-linear or semiterete, 6-18 mm long, densely villous when young, glabrous with age.

Flowers paired in the leaf axils, densely woolly.

Fruiting perianths depressed; processes slender, terete, 2.5-4.5 mm long, 3 major and 2 minor or all of the same length, with a Y- or star-shaped configuration, densely white-woolly.

	Malacocera albolanata twig and 2 fruiting perianths
Image source: fig. 161a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: R.J. Chinnock (1980) J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 2:141.

Distribution:  Found in depressions and clay pans. S.Aust.: LE, GT, EA.   Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: May — Sept.

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

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