Citation: A.J. Scott, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 89:113 (1978).

Synonymy: Bassia johnsonii Ising, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 88:101 (1964).

Common name: Johnsons copperburr.

Description:
Bushy intricately branched annual or perennial, glabrous; leaves slender, subterete or very narrowly fusiform, obtuse, 5-10 rarely to 15 mm long.

Flowers solitary, glabrous; stamens 4.

Fruiting perianth hard, glabrous; attachment circular; base truncate, horizontal; tube shortly cylindrical, c. 1.5 mm high, c. 2 mm wide; apex convex; spines 3 + 2, horizontally spreading; radicular pair on a short lateral spur 2-3 mm long; the 3 principal spines either opposite or at right angles to the radicular pair, 5-7 mm long; seed horizontal; radicle ascending.

	Sclerolaena johnsonii fruit
Image source: fig. 170d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Found on sandplains or sandy swales between dunes. S.Aust.: NW, LE.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: April — May, Aug. — Sept. (few records).

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

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