Gonocarpus tetragynus flowerhead3 (15298961799)

Description:

Description: Native, warm season, perennial, erect or ascending herb 15–30 cm tall. Stems are terete or weakly 4-ribbed; appressed-pubescent with stiff hairs. Leaves are nearly sessile, decussate, lanceolate to narrow-elliptic or rarely ovate, usually 5–15 mm long and 2–5 mm wide; margins are thickened and toothed. Flowerheads are spike-like. These flowerheads are only just starting to elongate. Flowers have 4 sepals and petals. Petals are 2.4–2.8 mm long and green to red. Flowering is in spring and summer. Grows in dry sclerophyll forest, heath and shrubland usually on sandstone. Date: 9 October 2014, 14:54. Source: Gonocarpus tetragynus flowerhead3. Author: Harry Rose from South West Rocks, Australia.