Family: Asteraceae
Gnaphalium diamantinense
Citation:
Paul (3. Wilson in H. Eichler, Suppl. 315 (1965).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Annual herb 6-12 cm high; stems several from the base, densely branched, ascending, whitish-cobwebby; leaves all cauline, oblanceolate, decurrent, acute, 1-2.5 cm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, thin, white- to grey-woolly on both surfaces, with undulate margins.
Capitula 8-14 in dense globose terminal clusters subtended by 3 or 4 shorter leaf-like bracts; capitular involucral bracts in c. 2 subequal series, oblong to oblanceolate, acute, 2-2.8 mm long, scarious, straw-coloured, the outer ones copiously woolly and obscuring the capitula; female florets 20-30; corollas filiform, c. 1.5 mm long; bisexual florets 2-4; corollas 2-3 mm long.
Achenes obovoid, c. 0.5 mm long, brown; pappus bristles free, deciduous separately, c. 2 mm long, 4-8 in outer florets, fewer in the inner ones.
Distribution:
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Apparently occurs along temporary watercourses and waterholes.
S.Aust.: LE. N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: recorded in June — Aug.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
Related to G. polycaulon, but distinguished by the very woolly involucres and the short globose inflorescence.
Author:
Not yet available
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