Common name: Plains Picris
Picris barbarorum Lindl. APNI* Description: Erect annual herb 5–60 high, much-branched, with sparse simple to bifid hooked hairs.
Basal leaves petiolate, narrow obovate to oblanceolate, attenuate at the base, 4–30 X 0.4–2.5 cm, obtuse to acute, entire to dentate; cauline leaves reduced upwards, sessile, truncate to cordate at the base.
Inflorescence a loose terminal corymb; heads pedunculate with up to 2 bracts at the base, 5–8 mm diam.; involucral bracts 2–15 mm long, outer tomentose or with simple or hooked hairs 3–7 mm long on the midrib. Florest bisexual, with ligules 8–12.5 mm long, yellow.
Cypselas 4–7.5 mm long with a beak shorter than the body, 5-ribbed, glabrous; pappus 5.5–7mm long, of inner barbellate bristles and outer plumose bristles.
Flowering: Jul to Nov
Distribution and occurrence: Uncommon in NSW, Vic & Qld. On river banks and floodplains.
NSW subdivisions: ?NC, NWP, ?SWP, NFWP
Other Australian states: Qld ?Vic.
Text by N.G. Walsh (1999), Holzapfel (1994). Taxon concept: Flora of Victoria vol. 4 (1999)
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