Mitrasacme stellata R.Br.

Annual herb, erect, to 35 cm high, hispid to glabrous, including calyx. Stem scapiform. Leaves linear to narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, rarely ovate, 2–90 mm long, 1–12 mm wide; margins usually lined with a pale band of cells. Flowers terminal and axillary, in dense or lax simple and compound umbellate clusters, rarely solitary; pedicels to 32 mm long. Calyx campanulate; tube 1–2 mm long; lobes 1–4 mm long, acute, attenuate or pungent. Corolla white, in dried specimens often orange-striate; tube 4.5–10 mm long; lobes 1.1–3.5 mm long. Stamens 2.9–5.7 mm long; filament bases swollen, white-pilose; anthers obtuse; dehiscence extrorse. Capsule globular to ellipsoidal, 2.5–4.5 mm long; fruiting style 1.5–5 mm long.

In dune swales, in heaths in sand and on the margins of seasonal swamps.