Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Eyre Peninsula, SA

Shrub close-up. Photo: Joe Stephens, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrub. Photo: Joe Stephens, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Shrubs. Photo: Joe Stephens, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Fleshy Minuria

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Shrub to 60cm tall.  Leaves semisucculent, alternating  up the stems.  Leaves 0.2-2.5cm long, less than 1mm wide, narrow cylindrical, hairless, with a straight or curved point.  Flowers yellow, with many ‘petals’.  Flower heads bell-shaped, borne singly on short stalks at the ends of the branches.  Endangered NSW.  Protected NSW.  Vulnerable Vic.

Description and photo (as Minuria suaedifolia) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 645

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

NSW Department of Environment & Heritage profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10445