Citation: A.J. Scott, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 89:112 (1978).

Synonymy: Bassia clelandii Ising, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 88:94 (1964).

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial to 30 cm high; branches woolly; leaves narrow-ovate to elliptic, acute, c. 5 mm long, c. 1.5 mm wide, thick, somewhat boat-shaped, silky-pubescent, crowded towards the branch apices.

Flowers solitary, tomentose, stamens 5.

Fruiting perianth hard, woolly, persistent; attachment basal, circular, concave; base slightly gibbous, tube oblong, c. 3 mm long, dorsiventrally flattened, somewhat recurved; limb erect, c. 1 mm long; spines 4 or 5, flattened and fused together in 2 pairs as short oblong plates on the abaxial and adaxial surfaces of the perianth, a single lateral spine sometimes also present or this fused to the abaxial pair, the plates either very short or up to 1 mm long and recurved, bearing at their apex short tubercles or slender spines to 1 mm long; seed erect; radicle vertical.

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

Published illustration: E. H. Ising (1964) Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 88:94.

Distribution:  Usually found in clay on the margins of salt lakes. S.Aust.: NW, LE.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: all months.

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

Biology: No text

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