Sclerolaena parviflora
(R.H.Anderson) A.J.ScottTufted or weakly erect subshrub to c. 30 cm high, branches somewhat shining, slender, sparsely covered with short, appressed hairs. Leaves linear to narrowly elliptic, terete, 2–8 mm long, usually with a few appressed hairs. Fruiting perianth hard, glabrous or with scattered appressed hairs; tube broadly turbinate, 1–1.5 mm long, 1.5–2. mm wide, attached centrally or slightly obliquely, attachment circular, flat or shallowly concave; apex truncate; limb inconspicuous; spines 6, widely spreading, 1–2.2 (–3, not in Victorian plants) mm long, 2 often shorter than others and attached to a short radicular spur. Fruits mostly Sep.–Dec.
LoM, MuM, RobP, MuF. Also WA, NT, SA, NSW. Locally common in mallee communities of north-western Victoria, both in light sandy soils and more fertile loams.
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Chenopodiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 129–199. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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