Citation: G.L. Davis, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 73:207 (1948).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Undershrub to 40 cm high; rhizomes absent; stems erect and woody near the base, spreading, densely branched and glandularpubescent above; leaves all cauline, sessile, ovate to oblanceolate, narrowed at the base, pinnatifid with dentate lobes or bipinnatifid, 0.5-2 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, glandular-pubescent.

Peduncles filiform, 1-7 cm long, leafless or with 1-4 reduced pinnatifid leaves, passing into the leafy stems; receptacle convex, c. 1 mm diam.; involucral bracts 10-14, obovate to oblanceolate, 3-5 mm long, densely glandular-pubescent, with purplish torn-ciliate apices; ray florets 40-60; ligules linear, c. 6 mm long, pale-blue to mauve; anthers with terminal appendages.

Achenes narrowly cuneate, flattened, 1.5-2 mm long, chestnut-brown; margins wingless, 2-ridged, glabrous; faces finely tuberculate, with a few minute hairs; pappus a ring of microscopic papillae or absent.

Distribution:  Among rocks on mountains.   W.Aust.; N.T. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Sept.

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

Biology: No text

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