Citation: D. Cooke, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 7:279 (1985).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Glutinous undershrub 40-70 cm high with short-lived shoots from a woody stock; stems erect, slender, sparsely branched, glabrous, striate, green; leaves sessile, erect, linear, obtuse, entire, 3-12 rarely to 24 mm long, c. 0.8 mm wide, glabrous, shiny, dark-green, concolorous, with numerous glandular dots visible as lumps in dried material, compressed-terete, channelled above, convex below, those near the base of the plant the largest and soon withering.

Capitula terminal on leafy divaricate branches, the whole of the upper part of the plant forming a loose corymbose panicle; involucre campanulate, c. 3 mm long; bracts 2-3-seriate, lanceolate, acute, minutely glandular; ray florets 12-20; ligules oblanceolate, 7-8 mm long, white to pink; disk florets 16-22, yellow, often with pinkish corolla lobes.

Achenes terete, c. 1 mm long, striate, pubescent, reddish-brown; pappus bristles 25-35, c. 2 mm long, subequal, dull-pink.

Distribution:  In swamps and low-lying ground on poor soils. S.Aust.: SE.   Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: March — May.

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

Biology: Closely related to O. glandulosa and distinguished mainly by its habit and larger capitula.

Author: Not yet available