Citation: F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 8:56 (1873).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial herb or subshrub to 30 cm high, with a robust branched rootstock; stems erect to ascending, terete, grey-pubescent with T-shaped hairs; leaves mostly cauline, ovate to narrow-elliptic or oblanceolate, attenuate and petiole-like or broad and sessile at the base, acute to obtuse, 3-7 cm long, 4-10 mm wide, dentate, greyish appressed-pubescent.

Capsule narrowly ovoid, c. 10 cm long and c. 4 mm wide, grey-pubescent with a small glabrous beak; valves shortly 2-fid; seeds flat, elliptic, c. 2.5 mm long, aculeate, dark-brown, with a thickened yellowish rim; wing absent.

	Habit, flower and seed.
Image source: fig. 632c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  In hummock grassland on red sandy soils. S.Aust.: NW.   W.Aust.; N.T. Conservation status: native Flowering time: most of the year.

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

Biology: A distinctive species, recognisable by the silvery-grey appearance due to appressed T-shaped hairs.

Author: Not yet available