Family: Asteraceae
Gnephosis eriocarpa
Citation:
Benth., Fl. Aust. 3:570 (1867).
Synonymy: Skirrhophorus eriocarpus F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 3:156 (1863).
, Skirrophorus eriocarpus Common name: Native chamomile.
Description:
Annual herbs; major axes prostrate to ascending, c. 5-25 cm long, hairy; leaves elliptic to narrowly elliptic or linear or obovate to lanceolate, 0.9-4.5 cm long, 0.15-0.9 cm wide, densely hairy.
Compound heads cylindrical to spheroid or broadly depressed-ovoid to very broadly ovoid, 0.5-1.2 cm long, 0.55-1.3 cm diam.; general involucre conspicuous, about one-third to half the length of the head, consisting of a few leaf-like woolly outer bracts and a few inner bracts which grade into the capitular bracts; general receptacle a slightly expanded axis; capitula c. 15-80 per compound head; capitular bracts 6-8, c. 2-seriate, obovate, flat to concave, 3-4.2 mm long, 0.65-1.3 mm wide, mainly hyaline but with a green opaque midrib extending about half to two-thirds the length, with scattered long hairs extending from the outer surface; florets 1 per capitulum, corolla tube 2.1-2.7 mm long, glabrous or with long twining hairs and/or glandular hairs.
Achenes 1.1-1.25 mm long, 0.5-0.6 mm diam., densely enveloped in long entwined hairs; pappus absent.
Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 710.
Distribution:
|
Favours sandy soils.
S.Aust.: NW, LE, EA. N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.
|
Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: most of the year (mainly spring).
|
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
|