Citation: A.J. Scott, Reprium nov. Spec. Regni veg. 89:114 (1978).

Synonymy: Bassia parallelicuspis R. Anderson, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 48:331 (1923); Austrobassia parallelicuspis (R. Anderson)Ulbr., Natürl. Pflanzenfam. edn 2, 16c:532 (1934).

Common name: Western copperburr.

Description:
Rounded perennial to 20 cm high; branches woolly; leaves slender, semiterete, 7-15 mm long, silky-villous, fleshy.

Flowers solitary; perianth densely woolly-villous; stamens 5.

Fruiting perianth closely woolly; tube oblong, c. 3 mm high and wide, curved upwards, dorsiventrally compressed, expanded into a hollow base, with an elliptic attachment, c. 5 mm long; limb short, erect, obscured by the indumentum; spines 2, lateral, parallel and erect, 1-3 mm long, somewhat obscured by the indumentum; radicular tubercle prominent, adjacent to 1 of the spines; seed and radicle oblique.

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

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

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

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