Common name: Slender Lagenophora
Lagenophora gracilis Steetz APNI* Synonyms: Lagenifera gracilis Steetz APNI*
Description: Herb with short rhizome, roots fleshy.
Leaves obovate to spathulate, obtuse, 1–8 cm long, 6–20 mm wide, sinuate to toothed with acute or obtuse teeth, sparsely hirsute to ± glabrous.
Heads 3–4 mm diam.; scape glabrous to sparsely appressed-pubescent, 5–35 cm long, bracts 0–2; involucral bracts lanceolate, 2.5–3 mm long, glabrous. Ray florets white to purple; ligule 1.5–2 mm long.
Achenes oblanceolate, 2–3.5 mm long, often with non-glandular hairs at base; apical beak 0.2–0.5 mm long, curved, with thickened white apical ring; beak and adjacent margins glandular.
Flowering: spring–summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Mainly grows in moist gullies and near water; chiefly in coastal districts, west to the Blue Mtns and Tamworth.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, CT, ST, NWS
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas. S.A.
Text by M. F. Porteners & E. A. Brown (1992); edited KL Wilson (Sept 2011)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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