Erect or ascending, cobwebbed to tomentose annual to c. 45 cm high, simple or branched. Leaves oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 5–50 mm long, 1–5 mm wide, grey-green. Compound heads ellipsoid to narrow-ovoid, 7–50 mm long, 4–11 mm diam. with 150–1000 capitula; bracts subtending compound heads inconspicuous. Capitulum-subtending bracts 1(–4), hyaline; capitular bracts 1.8–3 mm long, the midrib glabrous or with glandular hairs. Florets 2 per capitulum; corolla 5-lobed, tube 1.2–2.2 mm long. Cypselas obconical, 0.5–0.8 mm long, c. 0.3 mm diam., papillose; pappus of 2 or 3 jagged scales, 0.25–0.8 mm long, each terminating in 1 or 2 terminally subplumose bristles extending to c. the length of the corolla-tube. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VRiv, MSB, RobP. Also WA, SA, NSW. Localised in the far north-west, but sometimes locally common, mainly in mallee eucalypt communities.
Source:
Short, P.S. (1999). Angianthus. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 812–814. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
