Citation: N. Burb., Brunonia 5:55 (1982).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Annual herb 15-20 cm high; stems erect, much-branched; vestiture fine, white, more or less tomentose on stems, woolly-strigose on leaves, with glandular hairs; leaves subconduplicate, oblanceolate, 0.5-2 cm long, attenuate at the base, 2-6 mm wide, entire or shallowly obtuse-lobed; apices obtuse.

Involucres 7-8 mm long; bracts linear to narrowly elliptic, acute, hirsute; ray florets 2- or 3-seriate, purple.

Achene slightly flattened, narrowly oblanceolate in outline, 5-6 mm long; marginal ridges thin, pubescent; faces with ribs all extending to the summit, pubescent with nonglandular hairs; pappus bristles multiseriate, barbellate, 4-5 mm long.

Distribution:  In shrubland. S.Aust.: NU.   W.Aust. Conservation status: native Flowering time: April — Oct.

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

Biology: Close to V. gracilis, which it replaces on the Nullarbor Plain.

Author: Not yet available