Sclerolaena urceolata (Ising) A.J.Scott

Glabrous rounded perennial c. 15 cm high, branching from base. Leaves slender, terete, 5–10 mm long, fleshy. Fruiting perianth solitary in leaf axils, glabrous, straw-coloured when dry; tube depressed-globular, c. 0.5–1 mm high, prominently 10-ribbed, narrowed into a hollow cylindrical base equal in height to tube; apex with a prominent erect radicular tubercle c. 1 mm long shortly bifid at apex and with 4 shorter erect tubercles. Seed horizontal with erect radicle.

Grows in heavy soil subject to flooding.