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Family: Asteraceae
Podolepis arachnoidea

Citation: Druce, Rep. Botl Soc. Exch. Club Br. Isl. 1916:640 (1917).

Synonymy: Rutidosis arachnoidea Hook. in T.L. Mitchell, d. Trop. Austral. 341 ( 1848); Rutidochlamys mitchellii Sonder, Linnaea 25:497 (1852); P. rhytidochlamys, F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 4:79 (1864); P. rutidochlamys F. Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Aust. 3:603 (1867).

Common name: Clustered copper-wire daisy, cottony podolepis.

Description:
Perennial herb to 80 cm high; stems few, erect, branched, wiry, white-woolly; basal leaves numerous, oblanceolate, attenuate basally, acute, up to 13 cm long, to 18 mm wide, woolly on both surfaces or on the lower one only; cauline leaves few, narrowly lanceolate, amplexicaul, 2-11 cm long, to 16 mm wide, with revolute margins, woolly below.

Capitula subsessile in terminal clusters of 3-10; involucres campanulate, c. l0 mm long, c. 6 mm diam., reddish-brown; bract laminae imbricate, all narrowly elliptical, acute, wrinkled at the apex, the intermediate ones hardly clawed; ray florets 5-7: ligules oblong, c, 2.5 mm long, very deeply 3- or 4-lobed, yellow.

Achenes c. 2 mm long; pappus bristles 25-30, free.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 665.

Distribution:  Recorded for the State on the basis of one specimen from Cooper Creek collected in 1884, and occurring in Qld and N.S.W. close to the border. In mulga and desert spinifex communities on deep sands.

S.Aust.: LE.   Qld; N.S.W.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: June — July.


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