Citation: Benl, Mitt. Bot. München 4:79 (1961).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Annuals or perennials with a woody tap root, tufted, erect to spreading; stems green or glaucescent, rising from a pilose base, villous throughout only when young, soon becoming glabrous except for the upper parts and axils; leaves greyish-green to slightly glaucous, coriaceous, marginate, mucronate; basal leaves mostly spathulate, crowded, to 10 (rarely 18) X 2.8 cm, petiolate; stem-leaves smaller, lanceolate, subsessile; bract villous throughout, bracteoles with hyaline wings.

Perianth-segments violet-reddish, apices 2-2.5 mm long, finely toothed, fading to white, the centre to greenish, dorsal pubescence of two kinds (long denticulate-nodose hairs mingled with shorter dendroid ones), leaving subglabrous a short keel above the tube, inner perianth-segments with basal woolly hairs; stamens initially pink, markedly widened toward their base and fused into a cup adnate to the perianth tube, 2 rarely 3 with ellipsoid anthers, sterile ones a little shorter; ovary clavate, stalked, with 1 or 2 rows of hairlets near the summit, style eccentric.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

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. Spikes to c. 2.5 cm diam.; bracts pale-brown

var. eichlerianus 1b.

Author: Not yet available