Rhizome 1-3 cm long, c. 1 cm diam.; roots fibrous. Leaves annual, up to 3 or occasionally absent, ±terete, 6-8 cm long. Stems perennial, leafless, striate, 25-62 cm long, shortly hirsute near base, becoming glabrous above, branching monopodially, occasionally 2 or 3 branches at one node. Umbels 1-5-flowered, terminal on branches, occasionally further sessile ones below; pedicels 6-11.5 mm long, articulated near base, elongating in fruit. Perianth segments 10-14 mm long. Sepals oblong, 1.5-2 mm wide, mucronate. Petals elliptic, 4-5 mm wide; fimbriae 3-4.5 mm long. Stamens 6; anthers twisted, 3 outer 3-4 mm long, 3 inner 6-9 mm long and curved. Style curved, 8-9 mm long. Seeds ±cylindrical, 1.5 mm long, 1 mm diam.; aril shortly stalked, yellowish.
Grows in tall forest in the Blue Mountains and areas near Sassafras, N.S.W., mallee eucalypt scrub in N.S.W. and Kangaroo Is., more open mallee vegetation in the Ninety Mile Desert (S.A.) and the Little Desert (Vic.). Soils range from sandy gravel and shallow loam to deep sand and gravel.
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