Annual herb, erect, 20–70 cm high. Stem with several slender, erect branches, glabrous. Leaves linear to lanceolate, acute, glabrous, shortly petiolate; lamina 5–20 mm long. Flowers in upper axils, 1–3 per axil; bracts 2 per axil, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 2–3 mm long, long-ciliate towards base. Floral tube and sepals greenish-yellow, 2–3 mm long, densely short-hairy, persistent in fruit; sepals erect, ovate, c. 0.5 mm long; ovary distally hairy. Seeds c. 2 mm long. Flowers Jan.–Mar.
Also naturalised SA. Native to Asia, southern and central Europe. Reported as a pasture weed in 1955 (from Goongee, near Murrayville) but apparently not persisting there.
Source:
Entwisle, T.J. (1996). Thymelaeaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 912–930. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
