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Rhodanthe pygmaea (DC.) Paul G.Wilson
Family Asteraceae
Common name: Pigmy Sunray

Rhodanthe pygmaea (DC.) Paul G.Wilson APNI*

Synonyms: Helipterum pygmaeum (DC.) F.Muell. APNI*

Description: Ascending sparsely woolly annual to 6 cm high, branching at base.

Leaves linear-triquetrous, 5–10 mm long, c. 0.3 mm wide.

Heads sessile, solitary or clustered, narrow-ellipsoid, c. 7 mm long; involucral bracts hyaline to pale brown, glabrous, the innermost often with a short white lamina c. 1 mm. Florets 4 or 5; outer 2 bisexual the others male. Corollas narrow-cylindrical, c. 3 mm long, very shortly 5-toothed.

Achenes turbinate, c. 2.5 mm long, silky pilose; pappus persistent, bristles 5–7 mm long.


Habitat
Photo A.E. Orme

Habit
Photo A.E. Orme

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Flowering: spring.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in a wide range of communities, most abundant on heavy soils in open seasonally wet areas, south from Tibooburra.
NSW subdivisions: CC, ST, NWS, CWS, SWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Vic. W.A. S.A.
AVH map***

Text by Paul G. Wilson
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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