Citation: Grau, Mitt. Bot. München 12:186 (1975).

Synonymy: Podocoma nana Ewart & Jean White in Ewart, Jean White & Tovey, J. Proc. R.Soc. N.S.W. 42:192 (1909).

Common name: Small fuzzweed.

Description:
Annual herb 3-20 cm high; stems branched, decumbent to ascending, not woody, glandular, pilose to glabrous; leaves oblong to elliptic, 1-4 cm long, up to 1 cm wide; pinnatifid or bipinnatifid, pilose to glabrous; bases narrow, petiole-like or broad and subamplexicaul.

Peduncles terminal, 1-7 cm long, glandular; involucral bracts glandular, to 10 mm long; receptacle 2.5-5 mm diam.; ligules filiform, c. 1 mm long, white, hardly exceeding involucres.

Ray achenes narrow-obovate, c. 2 mm long, with a beak 2-4.5 mm long, glabrous; pappus bristles uniseriate, subequal, c. 3 mm long; disk florets fertile; achenes like the ray achenes.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 661.

Distribution:  Winter annual on a variety of soil types, including clay soils subject to flooding. S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA.   N.T.; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: June — Sept.

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

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