Citation: F. Muell., Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 6:33 (1883).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Kangaroo Island daisy.

Description:
Leaves spreading, narrowly linear, 2-6 cm long, c. 1.5 mm wide, entire, obtuse, more or less terete, glabrous; leaf bases subterranean, somewhat dilated, persistent to form a loose coarsely fibrous sheath around the rhizome; scapes few, filiform, 1.5-6 cm long, glabrous, reddish.

Capitula 2-3 cm diam.; involucral bracts ovate, obtuse, 3-5 mm long, entire, glabrous; ligules 20-30, linear, 8-10 mm long, white to pink.

Ray achenes c. 1.5 mm long, pubescent; pappus scales 8-12, narrowly lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm long, ciliolate; disk florets numerous, golden-yellow; pappus scales 1-3, c. 0.5 mm long or absent.

Image source: fig. 653a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Leigh et al. (1984) Extinct and endangered plants of Australia, facing p. 160.

Distribution:  On edges of streams and seasonally marshy ground. Flowers: Sept.-Nov. S.Aust.: KI. Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available