Polycalymma stuartii
F.Muell. & Sond. ex Sond. Poached-eggs DaisyErect or spreading herb, usually 10–50 cm high; stems several, unbranched, glandular-pubescent and often cobwebbed. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, mostly 2–7 cm long, 1–5 mm wide, subacute, margins thickened and often recurved, both surfaces glandular-hairy to glabrescent, lower surface often woolly. Compound heads 2–5 cm diam.; bracts of common involucre ovate, laminae 5–8 mm long on woolly and/or glandular-hairy herbaceous claws; capitular bracts narrow-elliptic, scarious, shortly clawed; involucral bracts 4–9, ovate, 4–8 mm long, scarious, erose, glabrous. Florets deep yellow. Cypselas 2–3.5 mm long; pappus bristles 9–15, 5–7 mm long Flowers mostly spring and summer.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF. Also NT, SA, Qld, NSW. In Victoria confined to the north-west, mostly on sand hills, and often abundant in favourable seasons. There is a dubious record from Steiglitz near Melbourne.
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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