Citation: Hook. f., Fl. Tasm. 1:162 (1856). Caraway, Australian.

Synonymy: Caldasia eriopoda DC., Prod. 4:229 (1830); O. andicola sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 656 (1952), non (Kunth)Endl. ex Hook. f.

Common name: None

Description:
Erect pubescent perennial herb, c. 30 cm high; leaves in a basal rosette, petiolate; leaf blades 2-pinnate, 3-20 cm long, 1-3 cm broad, more or less hirsute with appressed hairs; lower pairs of leaflets often petiolulate and distant; ultimate lobes of leaflets mostly linear to obovate-oblong; petiole slender, usually about as long as the blade, with a narrow sheath at the base.

Peduncles erect, stout, hirsute with reflexed hairs; involucral bracts 8-12, elliptical, c. 3 mm long, connate at the base, acute at the apex; flowers 12-35 in 1 umbel, subsessile; top of pedicels-and base of ovaries densely covered with erect hairs; pedicels elongating and becoming longer than the fruit; petals white, less than 1 mm long, hairy below, erect, incurved, scarcely spreading beyond the width of the ovary; anthers purplish.

Fruits narrow-ovoid, 3.5-6 mm long.

Published illustration: Burbidge & Gray (1970) Flora of the A.C.T., fig. 274; Beadle (1980) Students flora of north-eastern New South Wales, figs 266 B1, B2.

Distribution:  In mountain grassland. S.Aust.: SL, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.

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

Biology: It is extremely rare in S. Aust. where it has been observed only twice this century.

Author: Not yet available