Common name: Annual Knawel
Scleranthus annuus L. APNI* 
Description: Sparsely branched herb, with decumbent or ascending stems; leaves crowded together in pseudofascicles.
Leaves linear, 10–14 mm long, apex acute to obtuse, lamina thick but not keeled.
Flowers shortly pedicellate in terminal or axillary clusters; bracts short, not enclosing the calyx. Calyx lobes acute, spreading, longer than tube. Stamens 5–10.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Occasionally naturalised (near Ebor, Sydney, Young); also in Vic, Tas. Native of Eur., N Afr. & Asia. Grows in sandy waste ground.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *NT, *ST, *CWS
Other Australian states: *Vic. *Tas.
Text by A. Doust (1990); edited KL Wilson (Feb 2014)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990); Cowley and West, Flora Vic 3 (1996)
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