Citation: A.J. Scott, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 89:111 (1978).

Synonymy: Bassia articulata J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 57:150 (1933).

Common name: Jointed poverty-bush.

Description:
Small rounded shrub to 0.4 m high, glabrous except for the woolly-pilose leaf axils; leaves slender, semiterete, acute, 5-15 mm long.

Flowers solitary; perianth glabrous apart from the woolly-ciliate perianth-segments; stamens 5.

Fruiting perianth hard, erect and appressed to the branch; attachment very oblique, firm; tube semicylindrical, dorsiventrally compressed, c. 3 mm high; limb erect, c. 1 mm long, woolly-ciliate; spines 3, spreading to recurved, slender, 2.5-5 mm long; seed and radicle erect.

	Sclerolaena articulata fruit
Image source: fig. 169a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  The fruits are sometimes congested along short portions of a branch which, when dead, may fall to the ground. S.Aust.: LE, FR, EA.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: Aug. — Sept. (few records).

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: Only differs from S. intricata in having 3 not 5 spines; it is possibly conspecific with that species.

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