Citation: Benl, Mitt. Bot. München 5:223, fig. p. 227 (1964).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Stems slender, spreading in a rosette, glabrescent except young shoots and leaf axils, forming few-spiked apical corymbs when fully grown; leaves green to glaucescent, often reddish-tinged, more or less spatulate, radical ones up to 9 x 2.5 cm, all spinulose-mucronate, on trailing stems turned upwards, uppermost often supporting inflorescences.

Spikes terminal or lateral and subsessile, hemispherical to ovoid, attaining 2-3 cm diam., with up to 50 deep-pink flowers; bract c. 7 x 3 mm and broader bracteoles long-acuminate; perianth recurved towards the summit of the spike; perianth-segments to c. 16 mm long, with a short feathery pubescence intermingled in the lower part with minute dendroid hairs and leaving a short glabrous keel above the c. 2 mm long tube, the subspathulately dilated shining tips (to 4 X 2 mm) of the perianth-segments purplish fading to orange and a pale flesh-colour, inner segments woolly inside; fertile stamens constantly 2, united with the reduced staminodes to a cupule beating an asymmetrical ring; ovary on a 2-2.5 mm long stipe, with some tiny lateral hairs, style very eccentric.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW.   W.Aust.; N.T. Conservation status: native Flowering time: April — Sept.

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available