Citation: Cabrera, Revta Mus. La Plata n.s. Bot. 4:174 (1941).

Synonymy: G. calviceps sensu Paul G. Wilson in H. Eichler, Suppl. 314 (1965), non Fern.

Common name: None

Description:
Annual herb 3-20 cm high, lacking stolons; stems usually several from the base, unbranched, decumbent to erect, cobwebby; basal leaves few, spathulate to oblanceolate, soon withering; lower cauline leaves oblanceolate, obtuse, mucronate, 1-3.5 cm long, 2-10 mm wide, flat, straight, grey-green and cobwebby on both surfaces; upper cauline leaves linear, acute, 1-2.5 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, subcomplicate, upcurved.

Capitula in terminal and subsessile axillary clusters aggregated to form a leafy spike-like particle; capitular involucral bracts in c. 3 unequal series, to 3.5 mm long, green and at first cobwebby below, brown and scarious above, the inner ones linear, obtuse, mucronate; female florets 40-50; corollas filiform, purple; bisexual florets c. 3.

Achenes obovoid-cylindric, c. 0.5 mm long, straw-coloured; pappus bristles 12-16, joined at the base and deciduous together, c. 2.5 mm long.

Distribution:  Scrub, roadsides and pine plantations.   W.Aust.; Vic.   Native to North and South America. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Oct. — Jan.

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

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