Common Name

Clustered Sunray

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Annual forb to 25cm tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, lower leaves sometimes opposite each other on the stem, often with small basal lobes, 1-4cm long, 1-5mm wide, linear to flat, hairy, margins curved down and sometimes wavy.  Flowers white and brown, with more than 10 ‘petals’.  Flower heads cylindrical to top-shaped,  borne in compact groups at the ends of the stems.

Description and photo (as Helipterum microglossum) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 689

PlantNET description with line drawings: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Rhodanthe~microglossa