Senecio lageniformis I.Thomps. APNI* Synonyms: Senecio sp. N sensu Harden (1992) p.p. APNI*
Description: Herbs to 40 cm high. Stems creeping and then ascending to be erect, surface or stems with sparse cotton hairs or glabrous.
Leaves in middle third of stems commonly becoming wider spaced and broader upwards, oblanceolate 4–10 cm long, not dissected, glabrous or scabrid; lower surface green. Uppermost leaves very narrow-elliptic to narrow-linear; base sometimes with small, entire auricles, not amplexicaul.
Flower heads per stem 5–40, cobwebby at flowering; peduncles 15–40 mm long. Involucral bracts 12–14; florets 50–60, c. 70% female.
Achenes lageniform, 3.5–4.5 mm long, dark brown, with papillose hairs scattered in lines. Pappus 5–6 mm long.
Flowering: Flowers summer to autumn.
Distribution and occurrence: Occurs in far south-eastern Australia from Long Plain near Kiandra in far south-eastern New South Wales south-south-west to Bentley Plains in eastern Victoria. Grows in grasslands, herbfields, low open heathland, or grassy open woodland in subalpine areas.
NSW subdivisions: NT, ST
Other Australian states: Vic.
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