- Reference
- Prodr. 184 (1810)
- Conservation Code
- Not threatened
- Naturalised Status
- Native to Western Australia
- Name Status
- Current
Tufted, wiry perennial, grass-like or herb, 0.2-0.6(-0.9) m high. Fl. green/purple, Dec or Jan to Aug. Red, brown or lateritic sand, loam, alluvium, clay, sometimes saline soils. Red sand dunes, sandstone or ironstone hills, river levees.
Distribution
- IBRA Regions
- Carnarvon, Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Gascoyne, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Northern Kimberley, Ord Victoria Plain, Pilbara, Tanami, Victoria Bonaparte.
- IBRA Subregions
- Augustus, Berkeley, Cape Range, Chichester, Fitzroy Trough, Hamersley, Hart, Keep, Lateritic Plain, Mackay, McLarty, Mitchell, Mount Eliza, Pentecost, Pindanland, Purnululu, Roebourne, Rudall, South Kimberley Interzone, Tanami Desert, Trainor, Wooramel.
- IMCRA Regions
- Cambridge-Bonaparte, Canning, Kimberley, King Sound, Pilbara (nearshore).
- Local Government Areas (LGAs)
- Ashburton, Broome, Carnarvon, Derby-West Kimberley, East Pilbara, Exmouth, Halls Creek, Karratha, Ngaanyatjarraku, Port Hedland, Wyndham-East Kimberley.