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

Derivation: Latin stelliger, star-bearing; with reference to the radially orientated spines in its fruit.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Small woolly shrub; leaves alternate, sessile, linear, somewhat fleshy.

Flowers bisexual, solitary and axillary; perianth urceolate, shortly 5-lobed; stamens 5; stigmas 2, slender.

Fruiting perianth subglobular, hard, with an obvious radicular tube, apex with a narrow horizontal wing (rarely absent) from which protrude about 11 short radiating spines; pericarp thick and crustaceous above, membranous below; seed horizontal, circular; radicle centrifugal; perisperm central.

Distribution:  A monotypic genus of eastern temperate Australia.

Biology: No text

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