Citation: Roemer & Schultes, Syst. Veg. 1:43 (1817).

Synonymy: Devauxia strigosa R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 252 (1810).

Common name: Hairy centrolepis.

Description:
Annual herb 2-7 cm high, bright-green; leaves numerous, crowded evenly to form a neat hemispherical tuft, linear-subulate, acute, mucronate, 1-2.5 cm long, c. 0.8 mm wide, straight, spreading, soft, pilose; innermost leaf reduced to a hyaline sheath.

Scapes terete, filiform, 1.5-6 cm long, glabrous or minutely pubescent; head ovoid, 3-4 mm long; primary bracts subopposite, gaping apart, subequal, with keelless herbaceous stiffly hairy bases contracted into terete glabrous points to 1 mm long; pseudanthia 10-20; secondary bracts truncate, 2 or 3 per pseudanthium; female florets 5-7 per pseudanthium; styles connate at the base only.

Seed c. 0.5 mm long.

Published illustration: Burbidge (1970) Flora of the A.C.T., p. 93.

Distribution:  In mallee, heath, scrub, woodland and open forest, on sand and other infertile soils.   All States except the N.T.   Probably adventive in New Zealand. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.

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

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