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Family: Asteraceae
Ammobium alatum

Citation: R. Br. in Sims, Curtis's Bot. Mag. 51:t. 2459 (1824).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Ammobium.

Description:
Perennial or facultative annual to 80 cm high; basal leaves narrowly lanceolate to spathulate with attenuate petiole-like bases, acute, 10-20 cm long, 5-15 mm wide, glaucous-green above, silvery-tomentose below; stems erect, rather weak, 4-winged, silvery-white cobwebby, divaricately branched; cauline leaves few, bract-like, narrowly lanceolate, 2-8 cm long.

Involucre c. 2 cm diam., white; florets bright-yellow, darkening with age; receptacular scales oblong to oblanceolate, herbaceous at first, becoming indurated, blackish-brown with a paler uneven apex, usually with a mucro, 3-4 mm long; base of corolla tube becoming swollen and persistent.

Achenes 3-4 mm long, finely rugose, black; pappus cup c. 0.5 mm long with awns to 1 min.

Distribution:  On roadsides.

S.Aust.: SL.   Native to Qld and N.S.W.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Dec. — April.


SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: A native of the tablelands in the eastern States; widespread in cultivation, and recorded as an adventive in this State.

Author: Not yet available


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