Muelleria 6: 317 (1987) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Native
Threat status:Victoria: rare (r)
Annual herbs to c. 6 cm high, simple or branched. Leaves oblanceolate, obovate, elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 2–11 mm long, 0.4–1 mm wide, apex sometimes hyaline, usually with a dense cover of scale-like hairs. Compound heads narrowly oblong, 5–25 mm long, 2–3.5 mm diam. Capitula 40–150 per compound head; capitulum-subtending bracts 1.6–2.3 mm long; capitular bracts 2, concave, upper margins ciliate; florets (1–)2(–4) per capitulum; corolla 3- or 4(–5)-lobed. Cypselas c. obovoid, 0.4–0.5 mm long; pappus absent. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
Glep, GGr, LoM, Wim. Also WA, SA. Occasional in mallee eucalypt communities, Yellow-box and Red-gum woodlands, and margins of halophytic shrublands, usually on sandy soils, occurring in and to the north and west of the Grampians.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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Lowan Mallee | present | native | |
Wimmera | present | native | |
Glenelg Plain | present | native | |
Greater Grampians | present | native |
State |
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Western Australia |
South Australia |
New South Wales |
Victoria |