Citation: A. Braun & Asch., Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. App. 6 (1867).

Synonymy: Artemisia minima L., Sp. Pl. 849 (1753); C. orbicularis sensu Tare, Hdbk Extratrop. Fl. S. Aust. 121 (1890), non Lour.

Common name: Spreading sneezeweed..

Description:
Prostrate annual herb 10-20 cm high, 10-30 cm diam.; stems numerous, weak, much-branched, terete, subglabrous to densely woolly; leaves oblanceolate to cuneate, narrowed at the base, coarsely toothed near the apex, 5-15 mm long, 1-4 mm wide, glabrous to sparsely woolly.

capitula sessile or subsessile, biconvex, 3-4 mm diam., yellowish or green; involucre hemispherical, remaining herbaceous; bracts obtuse, c. 1 mm long; female florets 3-5-seriate; bisexual florets 8-15; achenes c. 1 mm long, more or less cylindrical, with ribs reaching to the truncate apex.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 671.

Distribution:  On floodplains and other sites subject to flooding.   All States. Conservation status: native Flowering time: most of the year.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: South Australian material shows a gradation from subglabrous to densely woolly vestiture, and the var. lanuginosa (DC.) Domin is not recognised here. The names Cotula minuta Forster f. and Centipeda orbicularis Lour. have been applied to the New Zealand species of Centipeda; this may be referrable to C. minima, but at present its identity is doubtful.

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