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

Synonymy: Bassia convexula R. Anderson, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 48:346 (1923).

Common name: Tall copperburr.

Description:
Erect woody perennial to 30 cm high; branches slender, cottony; leaves linear to narrow-elliptic, 4-10 mm long, appressed-villous.

Flowers solitary; stamens 4.

Fruiting perianth hard, somewhat pubescent or shortly villous; attachment basal, circular, c. 1.2 mm diam.; tube turbinate, c. 1 mm high and c. 1.5 mm wide at the summit; apex convex, limb inconspicuous, pubescent; spines 3 d- 2, 1-2 mm long, radiating, the radicular pair shorter and borne on a short radicular spur.

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

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 251.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA, MU.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: April — Oct.

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

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