Podotheca angustifolia
(Labill.) Less. Sticky Long-headsBranches ascending to erect, 2–30 cm long, sometimes cottony, also with flat, septate eglandular hairs and stalked glandular hairs. Leaves linear, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 6–90 mm long, 1–7 mm wide, sometimes subsucculent. Capitula 12–45 mm long, 3–12 mm diam.; involucral bracts 14–28 per capitulum, ovate to lanceolate or c. linear, 7–28 mm long, outer ones usually with narrowly hyaline, long-ciliate margins, inner bracts hyaline except for midrib, glabrous or the margin long-ciliate. Florets 10–70 per capitulum; corolla-tube 14–21 mm long. Cypselas 2.2–4 mm long; pappus smooth at base, plumose in the upper half. Flowers Sep.–Dec.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, RobP, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, WPro, OtR. Also WA, SA, NSW, Tas. (Bass Strait islands). Locally common in mallee woodlands and shrublands in the north-west of Victoria, but also with scattered occurrences on sandy ground near the coast as far east as Wilsons Promontory.
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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