Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: F. Muell., J. Trans. Vict. Inst. 1:124 (1855).

Description:
Muntries, pink buttons. Spreading shrublets with prostrate main branches often rooting, usually with some hairs on young branches; leaf blade flat, ovate to broadly elliptic or almost orbicular, rarely lanceolate, 4-8 x 2-5 mm, abruptly constricted into a petiole and tapering into a recurved terminal point, glabrescent, the margin often curved upwards and with teeth usually present; petiole 1-2 mm long.

Flowers borne in terminal heads 10-15 mm diam.; bracts broadly ovate to oblong, almost reaching to the rim of the hypanthium, silky, brown, deciduous after flowering; hypanthium silky, ovoid-cylindrical, 2.5-4 mm long; sepals lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm, silky outside and less so inside; petals broadly obovate to almost orbicular, white; stamens 3-5 times as long as sepals, spreading; ovary 2- or 3-celled with 16 or more ovules in each cell covering a peltate placenta; style as long as stamens and with a capitate stigma.

Fruit 8-12 mm diam., deciduous, fleshy, purple; fertile seeds c. 2mm long, oblong-reniform, finely striate.

Distribution:  Usually on sandy soil often with limestone. S.Aust.: MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Dec.

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available