Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 796 (1753).

Derivation: Greek chondrile, the name applied to C juncea in classical times; from chondros, gristle, referring to the wiry skeleton-like stems.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial herb with a tap root; vestiture of minute non-glandular tomentum; basal leaves runcinate, flat, forming a rosette; stems terete, wiry, repeatedly divaricate-branched, with remote reduced leaves.

Capitula more or less sessile, axillary, small, homogamous; involucre cylindrical, 2-seriate, herbaceous; outer bracts minute, patent; inner bracts linear, erect, ultimately spreading in fruit; receptacle flat, naked, pitted; fiorets bisexual, fertile, ligulate; ligules broadly linear to cuneate, yellow; corolla tube very narrowly funnel-shaped, papillose distally, glabrous at the base; anthers sagittate at the base, with triangular apical appendages; style branches linear, terete, papillose.

Achenes compressed-fusiform, ribbed, with a capillary beak surrounded at the base by a collar of 5 or 6 patent scales; pappus multiseriate, persistent, of free barbellate bristles.

Distribution:  25 species in Europe and Asia; 1 naturalised in Australia.

Biology: No text

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