Citation: Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2:395 (1891).

Synonymy: Statice companyonis Gren. & Billot in F. Schultz, Arch. fl. Fr. Allem. 338 (1855); L. psilocladon sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 679 (1952).

Common name: None

Description:
Perennials with leaves densely clustered in one to few basal rosettes and with a slightly woody base; leaves oblanceolate to obovate, rarely spathulate, 1.5-5 cm long, 7-18 mm broad, obtuse, rounded to emarginate, tapering into a slender base, entire, with the central vein more or less visible.

Inflorescence a panicle angular-ovate in profile, with branches usually strictly distichous, with each spike-like part-inflorescence with 5-9 rarely to 12 loosely arranged spikelets each with 1 or 2 rarely 3 flowers; sterile bracts with the outer ones with the midrib shorter or as long as the hyaline margin, with the inner one membranous; calyx 4.5-6 mm long, with the funnel- to salver-shaped tube hairy at the base, with the midrib continued into the apex of pointed lobes; corolla funnel-shaped with spreading lobes truncate to emarginate, deep-violet.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.   Native to southern France and the Balearic Islands. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Fig. 509B.

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

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