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

Synonymy: Bassia symoniana Ising, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 88:75 (1964).

Common name: None

Description:
Rounded shrub c. 30 cm high; branches velvety; leaves linear, trigonous, to 30 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, silky, succulent.

Flowers in pairs; perianth pubescent, 5-lobed; stamens 5.

Fruiting perianth hard, sparsely pubescent; base solid, truncate, c. 1.5 mm high and wide, attachment circular, c. 2 mm diam.; tube shortly cylindrical, c. 1 mm high, bearing 2 series of appendages; appendages opposite the perianth-segments 5, erect, lanceolate, 2-3 mm long, spiny; appendages between the segments 4-12, recurved, fan-shaped, c. 3 mm long, fimbriate, with pungent spines; seed horizontal; radicle centrifugal.

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

Distribution:  Found on sandy margins of salt lakes. S.Aust.: NW, NU, GT.   W.Aust.; N.T. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Flowers and/or fruits: all months.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: Closely related to S. fimbriolata (F. Muell.)A.J. Scott, and possibly conspecific with that species.

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