Citation: Domin, Biblthca Bot. 89:897 (1927).

Synonymy: S. muricata sensu J. Black, FI.S. Aust. 538 (1952), auct. non Lindley.

Common name: None

Description:
Dense broom-like perennial to 45 cm high, glabrous or puberulent at the base; stems slender, much-branched in the upper part; leaves, at least the upper ones, usually scale-like, sometimes linear to narrowly elliptic, up to 15 rarely to 30 mm long.

Inflorescence a lax cylindrical spike, with flowers in clusters of 1-3, the bracts and bracteoles ovate, with shallowly erose to denticulate white margins; hypanthium 0.5-1.5 mm long; sepals 0.6-0.9 mm long, yellow to greenish-yellow, shallowly erose; corolla pale-green, yellow or dark-brown, the tube 2.4-3.2 mm long, slender, the lobes 1-1.6 mm long, acute; gynoecium 3-partite.

Cocci usually 1, broadly obovoid to obovoid-pear-shaped, curved towards the axis, 2-3.3 mm long, rugose, sometimes obtusely tuberculate over the distal two-thirds, the basal cavity shallow to deep with a thin rim extending distally along the midline exposing a narrow band of bony endocarp.

	Stackhousia clementii cocci.
Image source: fig 426h in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  In sandy, clay or saline soils, often on limestone, in open woodland or hummock grassland, on ephemeral swamp margins, plains or ridges. S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: in all months.

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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