Citation: F. Muell. & Sonder ex Sonder, Linnaea 25:466 (1853).

Derivation: Greek ixos, bird-lime; chlamys, cloak; referring to the sticky, glandular surface of the involucres of I. cuneifolia.

Synonymy: Podocoma sensu R. Br. in Sturt, Exped. Centr. Aust. Bot. App. 80 (1849); J. Black, Fl.S. Aust. 866 (1957). (C. R. Dunlop (1980) J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 2:241-252).

Common name: Fuzzweeds.

Description:
Annual and perennial herbs and small undershrubs, glabrous to villous with septate hairs; microscopic glandular hairs usually also present; leaves alternate, cauline, sessile.

Capitula terminal or axillary, pedunculate, solitary, heterogamous, radiate; involucres campanulate, becoming reflexed; bracts linear to narrow-lanceolate, herbaceous, imbricate in several unequal series; receptacle flat to slightly convex, naked, pitted; ray florets female, multisetlate; style branches linear; disk florets tubular, bisexual, fertile or sterile; anthers obtuse at the base, with slender terminal appendages; style branches with papillose linear-lanceolate terminal appendages.

Achenes flattened, narrowed into a filiform beak below the pappus, smooth; pappus of bristles, barbellate.

Distribution:  4 species, endemic to Australia.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:

1. Perennial undershrub; leaves dentate at the distal end only	I. cuneifolia 1.
1. Annual herbs; leaves deeply lobed or divided from the base
2. Leaves bi- or tripinnatisect; achenes sparsely sericeous	I. filicifolia 2.
2. Leaves pinnatifid or bipinnatifid; achenes glabrous	I. nana 3.

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