Picris angustifolia
DC.Annual to perennial, 7–140 cm high, with sparse to dense simple and mainly 2-fid hooked hairs; stems usually few-branched. Basal leaves petiolate to sessile, linear to narrow-ovate or oblanceolate, to 40 cm long and 3.5 cm wide, obtuse to acute, margins entire to dentate; lower cauline leaves similar but bases truncate to cordate; upper cauline leaves reduced, amplexicaul. Peduncles with up to 6 bracts close below capitulum; involucral bracts 2–18 mm long; outer bracts sometimes with lines of simple and 2-fid hooked hairs. Ligules 7–19 mm long. Cypselas mostly 3–11 mm long, beak usually shorter than body; pappus 4–10.5 mm long.
MuM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, MonT, HFE, VAlp.
3 subspecies, 2 in Victoria.
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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