Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 412 (1810).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Prickly knawel.

Description:
Rigid perennial herb, to c. 30 cm high, with many ascending stems; leaves linear-lanceolate, c. 15 mm long, rigid, pungent-pointed.

Flowers sessile in clusters, mostly terminal rarely in axils of leaves, and each flower sheltered by a broad bract; calyx c. 5 mm long in fruit; the calyx lobes ovate-mucronate, with scarious margins, longer than the tube; stamens 5, opposite the lobes and alternating with as many antherless filaments.

Capsule conical; seeds c. 1.6 mm long, c. 1 mm wide.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of Western New South Wales, p. 304.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI.   N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: mainly Aug. — Oct.

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