Podotheca
Decumbent to erect annual herbs, sometimes cottony, with flat septate hairs and/or glandular hairs. Leaves mainly alternate but the basal pair(s) opposite, sessile, sometimes succulent, entire, leaf-bases c. decurrent. Capitula discoid, homogamous, ovoid to broadly obovoid or c. obloid; involucral bracts multiseriate, the outermost leaf-like, the inner mainly hyaline; receptacle flat or concave, glabrous. Florets bisexual; corolla-tube more than 10 mm long, curved at anthesis, 5-lobed; style appendages triangular, papillose; stamens 5, anthers tailed. Cypselas obovoid, pubescent, obliquely attached, pedicel prominent; pappus bristles 5 (sometimes 1 or 10 outside Victoria) united at base, c. equal to corolla-tube, smooth or barbellate at the base to plumose at the apex.
An endemic Australian genus of 6 species (5 confined to Western Australia).
The phylogenetic position within the Gnaphalieae is unresolved.
Short, P.S. (1999). Podotheca. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 729–730. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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