Triumfetta tenuiseta Halford
Triumfetta tenuiseta is a perennial shrub growing to 1 m high with spreading or ascending branches. Flowering has been recorded for May, and fruits (pictured) in August and September. The fruit is globose 30–50 mm in diameter and densely covered with slender stellate hairs. The specific epithet refers to the long slender bristles on the fruit, Latin tenuis slender, seta bristle.
Triumfetta tenuiseta is endemic to Western Australia and is confined to the Pilbara region from North West Cape south to Minilya River, where it grows in shrublands on red sand dunes.
Photo: S. Dillon