Citation: Ulbr., Natürl. Pflanzenfam. edn 2, 16c:534 (1934).

Synonymy: Bassia limbala J. Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 46:567 (1922). , Bassia limbata

Common name: Pearl copperburr.

Description:
Shrub to 1 m high, tomentose all over with shortly branched hairs; leaves slender, semiterete to clavate, 10-30mm long, often recurved at the apex, fleshy.

Flowers solitary; perianth tomentose.

Fruiting perianth hard, tomentose; attachment basal, elliptic, c. 3.5 mm long; tube very shortly turbinate, c. 2 mm high and c. 3 mm wide at the apex; limb erect, cylindrical, shortly exceeding the tube; spines 2, divergent, 5-10 mm long; radicular tubercle prominent; seed horizontal; radicle ascending.

	Sclerolaena limbata fruits
Image source: fig. 170f 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. 254.

Distribution:  Found on heavy slightly saline soil. S.Aust.: LE, GT, FR, EA, EP, YP.   N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: probably all months, especially April — Oct.

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

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