Citation: F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 8:35 (1873).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Spreading glabrous to puberulent perennial to 50 cm or more high; stems many, intertwined, much-branched above; leaves linear to narrowly obovate, to 45 mm long.

Inflorescence lax, cylindrical, with flowers in clusters of 3-6, subsessile, the bracts and bracteoles many at each node, serrulate; hypanthium 0.6-1.1 mm long; sepals 1.2-2.1 mm long, erose-serrulate; corolla yellow-green to yellow, often flushed with dark-brown, the tube 2.5-5.5 mm long, stout, the lobes 1.8-2.2 mm long, acute to obtuse; gynoecium 3-partite.

Cocci 5-10mm long, glabrous, with 3 prominent semi-elliptic wings, the basal cavity deep, circular.

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

Published illustration: J. Mattfeld (1942) Natürl. Pflanzenfam. edn 2, 20b:fig. 77G-J; Barker in Jessop (1981) Flora of central Australia, fig. 234G.

Distribution:  Usually on sand dunes, more rarely in swales on plains or in shallow Sands, in woodland or shrubland, often amongst desert spinifex. S.Aust.: NW, NU, MU.   W.Aust.; N.T. Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

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

Biology: An add-zone species exhibiting a remarkable disjunct range in S.Aust.

Author: Not yet available