Citation: Roemer & Schultes Syst. Veg. 1:44 (1817).

Synonymy: Devauxia arisrata R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 253 (1810). , Devauxia aristata

Common name: Pointed centrolepis.

Description:
Annual herb 2-10 cm high, rigidly erect, bright-green or becoming reddish after flowering; leaves equitant, distichous, linear-subulate, keeled, acute, 1-6 cm long, 0.8-1.6 mm wide, glabrous, shiny; innermost leaf not reduced.

Scapes flattened, 2-edged, 1-8 cm long, glabrous; head flattened, oblong-ovoid, 1.3-3 mm wide; primary bracts opposite, somewhat gaping, with cartilaginous brown bases and leaf-like laminae, glabrous, the outer bract 8-35 mm long, the inner one 4-30 mm; pseudanthia 20-30; secondary bracts truncate, 2 or 3 per pseudanthium; female florets 3-6 per pseudanthium; styles free to the base.

Seed narrowly ovoid, c. 0.7 mm long.

Distribution:  In moist microhabitats within mallee, scrub, woodland and forest on sand and other infertile soils. S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Dec.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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