Vittadinia pterochaeta

Annual or biennial, to c. 30 cm high; stems with sparse to mid-dense, stiff, forwardly appressed hairs, usually mixed with sessile glands. Leaves narrowly oblanceolate to oblong, 3–30 mm long, 1–5 mm wide, often longitudinally folded; margins entire (rarely 1–2-toothed near apex); surfaces sparsely appressed-hirsute; apex acute, recurved. Involucral bracts oblong, 2–7 mm long, with minute glandular hairs all over, and a midline of longer simple hairs, ciliate at apex; ray florets pale to deep lilac, ligules 1–2 mm long. Cypsela narrowly turbinate to obconic, 3.5–4.5 mm long, unribbed, evenly covered with short, subappressed hairs; pappus bristles plumose, 4–5 mm long. Flowers Oct.–Jan. (but probably dependent on summer rain).