Citation: Melville, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 83:77 (1960).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Annual herb to 30 cm high; stems ascending, weak, scabrous to subglabrous; leaves sessile in distant pairs, lanceolate, attenuate into a petiole-like base, entire, 2-5 cm long, 5-10 mm wide, scabrous with appressed hairs.

Peduncles in opposite pairs or solitary, naked, c. 1 cm long, unbranched; involucral bracts 8-10, ovate to lanceolate, 5-6 mm long, exceeding the ligules, scabrous; ray florets 9-11; ligules obovate, emarginate, c. 2 mm long, yellow; ray achenes c. 4 mm long, obovate, papillose or roughened, with 3 flat irregularly dentate wings; pappus of 2 or 3 connate spines to 1 mm long; disk florets 20-25, yellow.

Disk achenes 4-5 mm long, with 2 wings; pappus a crown of connate scales and spines c. 1 mm long.

	Branch, leaf and achene.
Image source: fig. 644a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT.   N.T.; Qld. Conservation status: native Flowering time: April, May, August.

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