Citation: Turcz., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 24:177 (1851).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Tiny bow-flower.

Description:
Annual herb 1-3 cm high; stems prostrate, lax, branched, smooth, glandular-pubescent, sometimes also slightly cobwebby, reddish; leaves linear to narrowly elliptic, acute, 0.4-1.5 cm long, to 1 mm wide, subamplexicaul, glabrous or cobwebby.

Involucre 3-5 mm long; bracts narrowly lanceolate, with acute entire apices, densely white-woolly, becoming loosely spreading in fruit; florets 3-10; corolla white, often turning pink; tube 2-3 mm long, arched and deflexed, tomentose: lobes acute, 0.2-0.3 mm long.

Achene linear, truncate at the base, with a short curved beak, c. 3 mm long, black, almost glabrous.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 712.

Distribution:  On bare ground of clay pans and stony hills.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Sept.

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