Common Name

Dwarf Cup-flower; Dwarf Angianthus

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Annual forb to 15cm tall. Leaves alternating up the stem, 0.2-2cm long, to 4mm wide, linear to flat, sticky hairy, edges smooth, sometimes with a straight point. Flowers yellow, with 0 petals. Flower heads oval to cylindrical, borne singly, or several clustered, at the ends of the stems. Rare Vic.

Description and photo (as Angianthus pusillus) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 709

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