Erect, short-lived, often reddish or bronze-tinted shrub to c. 1 m high, dioecious. juvenile leaves linear to very narrow-elliptic, to c. 80 mm long, 4 mm wide, channelled above or flat; adult leaves linear-terete, often grooved, semi-succulent, 5–25(–50) mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide,; stipules triangular, to 0.5 mm long. All flowers with calyx c. 1 mm long; pedicels 1–2 mm long, recurved. Male flower calyces shallowly and broadly lobed; stamens 9–12(–14). Female flower calyces with ovate-triangular, acute lobes; carpels 4–7; stigmas 1–4 mm long, finely rugose. Fruiting carpels 3–5 mm long; seeds oblong, c. 1.5 mm long, prominently rugose. Flowers Aug.–Nov.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, RobP. Also SA. Grows on sand in heath and mallee shrublands of north-western Victoria, with isolated southerly outliers near Lake Mundi and Heywood. Generally common only in the first few years following fire.
Source:
Entwisle, T.J. (1996). Gyrostemonaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 462–463. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
