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Genus Rhaponticum Family Asteraceae

Synonyms: Stemmacantha APNI*

Description: Perennial herbs with underground rootstock.

Leaves entire to pinnatifid.

Heads solitary, large; involucral bracts several-seriate, each with rigid herbaceous basal part and membranous to scarious appendage; receptacle flat, with numerous bristles between the florets. Florets all tubular, bisexual, slender, 5-toothed, purplish.

Achenes oblong, compressed; pappus of numerous unequal fine bristles in several rows, all shortly plumose.


Distribution and occurrence: World: c.30 species, Mediterranean region to eastern Asia & Australia. Australia: 1 species (endemic).

Text by Louisa Murray
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW, Vol.3, 1992.

Taxa not yet included in identification key
Rhaponticum australe,    Rhaponticum repens


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