Urospermum
Annual or perennial (not in Victoria) taprooted herbs, with coarse multicellular simple hairs; stem usually branched. Leaves basal and cauline, alternate, toothed to pinnatifid. Capitula solitary or in loose terminal cymose panicles; involucre urceolate, bracts 7 or 8, equal, in 1 series, connate at base, lanceolate, herbaceous with scarious margins; receptacle convex, bristly, pitted. Florets ligulate, bisexual, yellow; ligule linear, 5-toothed; anthers sagittate at base; style bilobed, with long, subulate, minutely hairy branches. Cypsela body oblong, flattened, curved, papillose, with a large transversely wrinkled beak swollen at its base; pappus 1-seriate, of plumose bristles connate at base, falling as a single unit.
2 species, both from the Mediterranean region and both naturalised in Australia.
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Asteraceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 652–666. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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