Simple, erect or ascending-branched herbs 1–10 cm high, branches cottony. Leaves c. linear, subterete to terete, sometimes slightly succulent, 5–25 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, cottony, the upper often overtopping the inflorescence. Compound heads ellipsoid or ovoid or broadly so, 6–15 mm long, 4–13 mm diam., with 2–30 capitula; capitular bracts 8–10, obovate or elliptic or ovate to lanceolate, 1.7–4 mm long; florets 1–3 per capitulum; corolla-lobes purplish-black. Cypselas c. obovoid, 1.1–1.4 mm long, 0.8–1.1 mm diam.; pappus bristles 7 or 8, one-third to as long as corolla-tube. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VRiv, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT. Also WA, SA. Widespread in mallee woodlands of north-west Victoria, with isolated occurrences in box-ironbark forests of the central-north.
Source:
Short, P.S. (1999). Blennospora. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 809–809. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
