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Vittadinia cervicularis N.T.Burb.
Family Asteraceae
Vittadinia cervicularis N.T.Burb. APNI*

Synonyms: Vittadinia sp. A sensu Jacobs & Pickard (1981) APNI*

Description: Mostly annual herbs, scabrous to hirsute with ± glandular hairs.

Leaves variable, usually obovate, 7–35 mm long, 1–10 mm wide, apex recurved, margins entire or lobed near the middle.

Heads 10–14 mm long; involucral bracts ciliate at apex. Ray florets white to purple.

Achenes oblanceolate, 8.5–10 mm long, narrowed into a neck 0.5–3 mm long at the summit; ridges and ribs ± glandular pubescent; pappus bristles 6–9 mm long.


Flowering: most of year.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in woodland, mallee and cleared land; south from Walgett area.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, NWS, CWS, SWS, NWP, NFWP, SWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Vic. S.A. W.A.
AVH map***

Text by J. Scott & J. Everett
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)

 Key to the varieties 
1Achenes with distinct beak; facial ribs converging with marginal ridges, 1 or 2 continued in the groove between the ridges or the ridges fused and compressed to terete, scattered appressed ± glandular hairs on ridges and faces; upper portion with spreading hairs whose bifid apices may be thickenedvar. cervicularis
Achenes with very short beak or beak absent and then 3 or 4 of the facial ribs sometimes converge to the summit; the hairs on the faces are scarcely or not thickened apically and commonly bifidvar. subcervicularis

APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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