Citation: Coss. & Germ., Syn. Fl. Env. Paris edn 2:360 (1859).

Synonymy: Stellera passerina L., Sp. Pl. 559 (1753); S. annua Salisb., Prod. Chapel Allest. 282 (1796); Passerina annua (Salisb.)Wikstr., K. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. 320 (1818).

Common name: None

Description:
Erect plant to 0.5 m, mainly herbaceous but woody at the base, glabrous except for the inflorescence; leaves sessile, linear-elliptic to narrow-elliptic, 3-21 mm long, 0.5-3 mm wide, acute.

Flowers borne in the axils of the upper leaves; involucral bracts 2, ovate, 1.5-2 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, acute, glabrous on both surfaces, usually fringed on the margins at least in the lower half; pedicels absent or if present very short and bearing long fine white hairs; flowers bisexual, 2 or occasionally 1 in each cluster, greenish-yellow, 2-2.5 mm long; perianth covered with short fine white appressed hairs, persistent.

Seed ovoid, black, glabrous.

	Thymelaea passerina
Image source: fig 450 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Hegi (1925) Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa 5, 2:t. 187.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NL, MU, SL, SE.   ?Vic.   native to Europe and Asia. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Jan. — Feb.

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

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