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

Synonymy: Bassia blackiana Ising, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 57:91 (1933).

Common name: Blacks copperburr.

Description:
Rounded herb to 30 cm high; branches loosely woolly; leaves slender, semiterete, 5-20 mm long, silky-villous or eventually glabrous.

Flowers solitary; perianth woolly, 5-lobed; stamens 5.

Fruiting perianth woolly-villous or eventually glabrous; attachment small, basal; tube barrel-shaped, c. 2 mm high, hard (possibly fleshy outside when fresh), smooth or 5-10-ribbed; apex conical, woolly on the lobes; spines 5, 0.5-1.5 mm long (the radicular one the shortest), recurved; seed slightly oblique; radicle ascending.

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

Published illustration: E. H. Ising (1933) Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 57:92; Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 249.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: LE.   Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: July — Dec.

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

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