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

Synonymy: Bassia costata R. Anderson, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 48:347 (1923).

Common name: None

Description:
Small woody perennial to 30 cm high; branches shortly villous or sparsely woolly; leaves linear to very narrow-elliptic, 5-10 mm long, appressed-villous.

Flowers solitary; perianth sparsely villous; stamens 4.

Fruiting perianth hard, more or less glabrous; base slightly hollowed, attachment circular, 0.5-1 mm diam., sometimes slightly spreading; tube turbinate, c. 1.5 mm high and wide at the summit, prominently ribbed; apex cushion-shaped, sunken in the centre; spines 3 + 2, horizontal, 3-5 mm long, the radicular pair shorter and borne on a short spur; seed horizontal.

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

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE.   W.Aust.; N.T. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: May — Sept.

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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