Common Name

Shiny Elachanth, Smooth Elachanth

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Annual forb to 12cm tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5-1.1cm long, to 1mm wide, flattened cylindrical, the upper surface often channelled along the mid-vein, hairless, often sticky with resin dots, tips blunt.  Flower heads greenish, 0 petals, cup-shaped, borne singly at the ends of the stems.  Rare South Australia.  Rare Vic.

Differs from Elachanthus pusillus in that the stems and leaves are hairless.

PlantNET description with photos: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Elachanthus~glaber