Stackhousia clementii Domin APNI* Description: Dense, broom-like perennial up to 45 cm high, glabrous or puberulent at base. Stems slender, much-branched in upper part.
Leaves, at least the upper ones, usually scale-like, sometimes linear to narrowly elliptic, up to 15(-3) mm long.
Inflorescence a lax cylindrical spike; flowers in clusters of 1–3; bracts ovate, with margin white, shallowly erose to denticulate. Hypanthium 0.5–1.5 mm long. Sepals 0.6–0.9 mm long, yellow to greenish-yellow, shallowly erose. Corolla pale green, yellow or dark brown; tube 2.4–3.2 mm long; lobes 1–1.6 mm long, acute. Gynoecium 3-partite.
Cocci usually 1, broadly obovoid to obpyriform-obovoid, curved towards axis, 2–3.3 mm long, rugose, sometimes obtusely tuberculate over distal two-thirds; basal cavity shallow to deep with thin rim extending distally exposing tongue of bony endocarp.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in shallow sandy soil and limestone. This species is known from the Sturt National Park (North Far Western Plains); also occurs in Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia.
NSW subdivisions: NFWP
Other Australian states: Qld N.T. S.A. W.A.
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Endangered
Text by B.J. Conn (2005)
Taxon concept: W.R. Barker (1984)
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