Teucrium albicaule Toelken APNI* Synonyms: Teucrium sp. C sensu Jacobs & Pickard (1981) APNI*
Teucrium racemosum var. tripartitum F.Muell. APNI*
Teucrium argutum var. incisum Benth. APNI*
Description: Perennial herb 5–20 cm high, hoary, suckering and forming stands to several meters diam.; branches densely hairy; hairs simple, retrorse, ± appressed to slightly spreading.
Leaves 3-foliolate, sessile; leaflets ± linear, 0.2–1 cm long, 1–2 mm wide; apex subacute; margins entire and usually evenly recurved; sparsely to moderately hairy; petiole reduced to a ridge.
Flowers solitary per leaf axil; pedicel 4–7 mm long, often horizontal with apex and flower erect. Sepals 2–5 mm long, fused for a third to half their length, densely hairy with hairs simple and retrorse. Corolla 4–6 mm long.
Flowering: September–June.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in grey clayey soils in eucalypt woodland or in chenopod-dominated shrubland; west and south from Lake Bancannia.
NSW subdivisions: NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Vic. S.A.
This species occasionally hybridizes with T. racemosum.
Text by B. J. Conn
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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