Cotula australis
(Sieber ex Spreng.) Hook.f. Common CotulaAscending annual or short-lived perennial to 10 cm high; stems weakly rooting at nodes, branched, villous. Leaves obovate to oblanceolate in outline, usually 1–4 cm long and 7–10 mm wide, 1–2-pinnatisect, attenuate at base, sparsely to densely villous. Capitula 4–6 mm diam., terminal and axillary; peduncles 2–8 cm long, erect, filiform, exceeding the leaves, pubescent; involucral bracts many, oblong to lanceolate, 2–3 mm long, sparsely hairy to glabrous. Female florets 3- or 4-seriate, corolla absent; bisexual florets 15–25, corolla c. 0.5 mm long. Cypselas of female florets oblong, 1–1.5 mm long, flat, with a narrow thickened wing; cypselas of bisexual florets oblong, c. 1 mm long, plano-convex, smooth, wingless. Flowers mostly winter and spring.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, VAlp. All States. New Zealand. Widespread and often locally common throughout much of Victoria, often in moist grassy situations, occasionally in gardens and lawns.
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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