Citation: Benth., in Endl., Enum. Pl. Hügel 59 (1837).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Coarse bottle-daisy (or lagenophora).

Description:
Rhizome short; roots fleshy; basal leaves oblanceolate, 4-11 cm long, 12-28 mm wide, shallowly dentate or serrate with 4-10 pairs of teeth, densely hispid.

Scapes axillary, robust, 10-35 cm long, hispid to villous, with 2-6 oblanceolate leaves 5-30 mm long near the base and 1 or 2 scale leaves above; involucres 8-11 mm diam.; bracts oblong, acute to obtuse, erose-ciliate at the apex, pubescent to glabrous; ray florets 3- or 4-seriate; ligules 1-2 mm long, white to blue.

Achenes sessile, obovate, 2-3 mm long, with a beak to 1 mm long, glandular on the beak and margins, brown.

Distribution:  Occurs in scrub, woodland and forest, mainly in moist gullies and near water.   W.Aust.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Nov. and May — June.

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available