Centrolepis cephaloformis
Citation:
Reader, Victorian Nat. 19:97 (1902).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Dwarf centrolepis, cushion centrolepis.
Description:
Minute annual herb forming round moss-like or burr-like tufts 0.4-2 cm diam., pale-green; leaves crowded, subulate, acute, mucronate, 3-8 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, recurved, glabrous.
Scapes absent; heads terete, ovoid-conic, 2-3 mm long, 1-1.6 mm wide; primary bracts opposite, remaining almost closed, with keeled scarious straw-coloured bases, the outer bract with a recurved subulate lamina 2-4 mm long, the inner one acute without a lamina; pseudanthia 1-3; secondary bracts absent; female florets 4-10 per pseudanthium; styles connate to half their length.
Seed c. 0.5 mm long.
Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
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