Common name: Josephinia Burr
Josephinia eugeniae F.Muell. APNI* 
Description: Erect herb, 20–60 cm high, villous with glandular and non-glandular hairs, unpleasantly aromatic.
Leaves opposite, greyish green, villous; upper leaves oblong or ovate-oblong, 2–6 cm long, 5–20 mm wide, apex rounded, margins toothed, shortly petiolate; lower leaves often 3-lobed or 3-foliolate with segments or leaflets similar to upper leaves, petiole 1–5 cm long.
Pedicels 2–6 mm long. Sepals 2–3 mm long, villous. Corolla 6–20 mm long, purple to pink, shortly lobed, hairy on outside.
Nut globose, 8–12 mm long, woody, villous, covered with short spines; seeds 4, oblong.
Flowering: autumn.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on sand plains and dunes, west from Bourke district.
NSW subdivisions: NWP, NFWP
Other Australian states: Qld S.A. N.T.
Text by L. Retter
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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