Citation: F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 1:53 (1859).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Plains plover-daisy.

Description:
Erect bushy usually annual or sometimes perennial herb to 60 cm tall and diam., branching from the base; stems glandular-scabrid and with a sparse to moderately dense vestiture of woolly-cobwebby hairs; leaves oblanceolate to linear, acuminate, with a slender mucro, 1.5-3.5 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, with a vestiture like that of the stems.

Peduncles 4-15 cm long, bearing distant much reduced leaves; capitula broadly campanulate (the involucre with straight sides and a truncate base), 7-8 mm long, 10-15 mm diam.; involucral bracts more or less linear, subequal, densely pubescent with glandular hairs, the inner ones also with cobwebby hairs extending to adjacent bracts and with usually dark-brown subulate entire scarious tips; florets mid- to bright-yellow; seeding heads long remaining firmly intact.

Achenes glabrous except for a dense covering of glandular hairs at the apex; pappus bristles 8-13, half to two-thirds as long as the corolla, c. 0.5 mm broad at the base and united for c. 0.5 mm from it.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 703.

Distribution:  Found on various sites in small, scattered populations downstream from the major occurrences in N.S.W. and Qld where extensive stands occur on heavy clay soils of river floodplains following major floods.   Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Fig. 701A.

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

Biology: Toxic to sheep when grazed, to the exclusion of other feed, in dense mature stands.

Author: Not yet available