Common name: Variable Stinkweed
Opercularia varia Hook.f. APNI* 
Description: Spreading subshrub to 30 cm high; branches lax, numerous from one short main stem, angular, ± scabrous.
Leaves oblong-linear to lanceolate, sometimes ovate, 0.5–1.5 cm long, usually to 3 mm wide, apex acute, margins strongly recurved, lamina glabrous to densely scabrous.
Flowering heads mostly on peduncles 2–7 mm long and with apparently dichotomous branching from the same node on the lower inflorescences. Calyx lobes c. 1 mm long. Corolla c. 2 mm long. Fruiting heads 2–5 mm diam.; seeds transversely wrinkled with 2 smooth longitudinal ridges on the inner surface.
Flowering: June–October
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in sclerophyll forest, often in sandy soils, chiefly on the coast and adjacent ranges, south from Karuah.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, CT, ST, SWS
Other Australian states: Vic. Tas. S.A.
Text by T. A. James & W. K. Allen
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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