Citation: Cass., Dict. Sci. Nat. 51:475 (1827).

Synonymy: Bidens tenuifolia Labill., Sert. Austr. Caled. 44 (1825).

Common name: Native cobblers pegs, cobblers tack, glossogyne.

Description:
Rigid perennial herb 10-40 cm high; stems erect, numerous from a woody tap root, branched, terete, glabrous; basal leaves numerous, long-petiolate, deltoid to lanceolate, pinnatipartite, 4-8 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, the segments acute, entire to pinnatifid, glabrous, green above, glaucous below; cauline leaves few, subsessile, pinnatipartite, 1-2 cm long, c. 1 cm wide.

Peduncles 2-10 cm long, leafless, straight, branching divaricately from the upper stem to form loose cymes; involucral bracts narrowly lanceolate, 3-4 mm long, entire, glabrous; receptacle 2-3 mm diam., ray florets 7-10; ligules oblong, 2-4 mm long, yellow; disk florets yellow; anthers black.

Achenes flat, rigid, 7-8 mm long, to 1 mm wide, dark-brown, glabrous, striate; pappus awns straight, diverging, retrorsely barbed, 1-2 mm long, brown.

Image source: fig. 647 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 666.

Distribution:    All mainland 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

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