- Reference
- Fragm. (Mueller) 10:73 (1876)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Sprawling shrub, to 0.3 m high, bladdery calyx. Sand. Stony rises, alluvial plains.
Scientific Description
Herb or shrub, with hairy stems. Leaves 15-40 mm long, 8-14 mm wide, not lobed; margins entire; hairy, with stellate hairswith scales absent, Sessile glands absent; stipules present and persistent to older leaves or present but early deciduous (only visible on youngest leaves). Fruits indehiscent and splitting into sections (schizocarps), length-width ratio more or less as long as wide, hairs or scales present, simple hairs (without tubercle bases) absent, stellate hairs present, Sessile glands absent, tubercle-based simple hairs absent, gland-tipped hairs absent, scales absent; apex rounded; prickles absent (except perhaps a terminal awn); terminal awns or spines absent; calyx deciduous before maturity, not accrescent; carpels 5; seeds per loculus 1. Distribution Botanical Province Eremaean, IBRA Bioregion Tanami.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Ord Victoria Plain, Tanami.
- IBRA Subregions
- South Kimberley Interzone, Tanami Desert.
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Halls Creek.