Hyalosperma demissum
(A.Gray) Paul G.WilsonDwarf glabrous to sparsely cottony herbs to c. 2 cm high, simple or much-branched. Leaves opposite to alternate, linear-triquetrous or subterete, 1-nerved, to c. 5 mm long, acuminate. Capitula sessile amongst foliage leaves; involucral bracts 3–4-seriate, ovate to broadly oblong; outer bracts 2–2.5 mm long, c. hyaline except for green midrib half to two-thirds length of bract, pale green, silvery or pale yellow-brown, inner bracts similar to outer but with a short (0.2 mm) differentiated, pale brown or off-white or yellowish apex; receptacle rounded to conical; florets 15–25, bisexual, corolla 3- or 4-lobed, anthers included. Cypselas compressed-obovoid, c. 0.7 mm long, warty; pappus bristles c. 10, plumose, united at base. Flowers Sep.–Dec
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, HSF. Also WA, SA, NSW, Tas. Widespread and locally common, often occurring with other short-lived annuals following spring rains, growing in an array of Eucalyptus communities on alluvium and shallow, often rocky soils, occasionally in halophytic shrublands.
Short, P.S. (1999). Hyalosperma. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 800–804. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
