Citation: F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 9:4 (1875). Shrub 0.45-1.2 m high; stem much-branched, fulvescent-grey or with a whitish-grey tomentum; leaves decussate, sessile, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, with recurved-revolute margins, 6-38 mm long, 2-10 mm broad, with a greyish or brownish-grey tomentum, with a midrib and lateral veins conspicuous beneath.

Synonymy: Newcastelia cephalantha

Common name: None

Description:
Inflorescence a subglobose or oblong woolly head; flowers 4-6-merous, bractcate, sessile, 6-7.5 mm long; bracts sessile, elliptic-orbicular, glandular and tomentose outside, glabrous inside, 4-7 mm long, 3.5-5 mm broad; calyx 2- or 5-lobed, 2.5-4.5 mm long, glandular and woolly-tomentose outside, glabrous inside; tube 1.5-2 mm long; corolla purple-violet, glabrous outside, villous-tomentose within the tube, 4- or 5-lobed at the top; lobes ovate-acuminate, tube cylindrical, 3-3.5 mm long; stamens 4 or 5, much exserted; filaments filiform, glabrous, 3.5-4 mm long; anthers more or less orbicular, 0.5-0.7 mm long; ovary globose, glabrous, glandular all over, c. 1 mm diam.; style much exserted, filiform, glabrous, 6-7 mm long, with a minutely notched stigma.

Fruit globular, 1.8-2.8 mm diam., glabrous, glandular.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE. Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

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

Biology: Not Applicable

Author: Not yet available