Citation: Sonder, Linnaea 25:522 (1853).

Synonymy: Gnephosis rotundifolia Diels in Diels & E. Pritzel, Bot. Jb. 35:614 (1905).

Common name: Spoon cudweed.

Description:
Annual herb to 10 cm high; stems prostrate to ascending, sparsely branched, to 12 cm long, densely cobwebby; leaf blades orbicular to broadly obovate, usually apiculate, 2-10 mm long, green and slightly cobwebby above, white-tomentose below; petioles 3-12 mm long, dilated and cobwebby at the base.

Capitula 6-20 in terminal and axillary clusters, 2-3 mm long; involucral bracts c. 3-seriate, greenish; outer bracts ovate, to 1 mm long, densely cobwebby; inner 2 or 3 bracts longer, with shortly acuminate recurved brownish apices; florets 5 or 6, c. 2 mm long.

Achenes obconical, c. 0.9 mm long, dark-brown.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 687.

Distribution:  Occurs in mallee, woodland and forest. S.Aust.: FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. 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

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