Citation: Turcz., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 25:166 (1852).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Red microcybe.

Description:
Shrub to 1 m; branchlets glandular to verrucose, brown-stellate to scaly; leaves erect and appressed to the stem or spreading, sessile; lamina subterete or deltoid, c. 7 x 1 mm, upper surface glandular-verrucose; margin closely revolute; apex rounded to acute.

Inflorescence of 10-20 flowers, exceeding the leaves; peduncle scaly; foliar bracts leaf-like in all characters; sepals free or united below, linear-spathulate to ovate, 0.5-1 mm long, stellate-pilose on the abaxial surface; petals pale-yellow to white, sparsely ciliate towards the base; filaments glabrous.

Cocci c. 5 mm high, glabrous, apex rounded; seeds c. 2-3 mm long, black.

Published illustration: J. Black (1948) Fl.S. Aust., fig. 670.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Jan.

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

Biology: No text

Key to Infraspecific taxa:

1. Leaves spreading, more or less terete	var. multiflora 1a.
1. Leaves erect, appressed or slightly spreading, deltoid	var. baccharoides 1b.

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