Lagenophora brachyglossa
Jian Wang ter & A.R.BeanRoots fleshy, tufted from a short vertical rhizome. Leaves mostly 30–100 mm long and 9–25 mm wide, obtuse, densely hirsute, margins crenate to sinuate. Scape slender, 2–6 per plant, 10–16 cm long at anthesis, 9–30 cm long at fruiting stage, often darkly pigmented, glabrous except for short, more or less appressed hairs below capitulum; bracts several, lanceolate or oblanceolate, c. 2–4 mm long; capitulum 3–4 mm wide; involucral bracts oblanceolate), in 3 or 4 rows, outer bracts shorter than the inner bracts, outer bracts 1–1.8 mm long, inner bracts 2.2–3 mm long, apex obtuse. Ray florets 35–45, ligules 0.4–0.7 mm long, bright pink to purple. Disc florets 15–20, light yellow. Cypselas obliquely oblanceolate, laterally compressed, 3.2–3.7 mm long (excluding beak), light brown to brown at maturity, with glands sparsely distributed at base on both ventral and dorsal edges, hairs absent from base of cypsela; cypsela beak to 0.6–0.8 mm long, densely glandular throughout. Flowers Nov.-Mar.
EGU. Also Qld, NSW.
In Victoria currently known only from dry hilly country near Mt Wheeler, west of the Snowy River, Gippsland, but likely to be more common.
A recently described species of similar appearance to Lagenophora sublyrata, generally a species of moist forests and heathlands, but differing from it by the very short ligule (1.5.–3 mm long in Lagenophora sublyrata), the longer cypsela (mostly 2.4–2.8 mm long excluding beak in Lagenophora sublyrata), the distribution of glands on the cypsela beak (confined to the dorsal edge of the beak adjacent area of cypsela in Lagenophora sublyrata).
Wang, J.; Bean, A.R. (2016). A review of Lagenophora Cass. (Astereae: Asteraceae) in Queensland, Australia. Austrobaileya 9(4): 475.
