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

Synonymy: Statice myriantha Schrenk in Fischer & C. Meyer, Enum. Pl. Nov. 1:14 (1841).

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial, with leaves densely clustered in one to few basal rosettes but usually dead when flowering, with a slightly woody base; leaves not seen.

Inflorescence an elongate much branched panicle, with the lower branches sterile with branches more or less spirally arranged, with each spike-like part-inflorescence with 5-7 densely clustered spikelets each with 1 rarely 2 flowers; bracts all membranous and without a pronounced midrib; calyx 2-2.5 mm long, pink, with the tube funnel-shaped and glabrous, with midribs often continued into lobes; lobes about one-third of the length of the tube, and spreading in fruit; corolla funnel-shaped with spreading lobes truncate to rounded, pink.

Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: March.

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

Biology: No text

Uses: Originally from Mongolia but now often cultivated for the cut-flower market.

Author: Not yet available