Citation: Webb ex Schultz-Bip. in Webb & Berth., Phyt. Canar. 2:264 (1844).

Synonymy: Chrysanthemum frutescens L., Sp. Pl. 887 (1753).

Common name: None

Description:
Shrub 30-90 cm high; stems erect or ascending, branched, terete, glabrous or subglabrous; leaves lanceolate to obovate in outline, attenuate at the base, 2-7 cm long, pinnatisect to bipinnatisect with distant segments 0.5-2.5 mm wide, green, glabrous, somewhat succulent.

Peduncles erect, to 15 cm long, with reduced leaves below, naked above; involucres 6-12 mm diam.; bracts lanceolate to obovate, glabrous; ray florets 10-20; ligules linear, entire or toothed at the apex, 9-14 mm long, white.

Ray achenes 3-5 mm long, glabrous; disk florets numerous, yellow; disk achenes curved to straight, 2.5-4 mm long, irregularly ribbed, glabrous.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: In its native habitat A. frutescens consists of intergrading entities treated as 6 subspecies by Humphries (1976). Naturalised plants in S.Aust. appear to be derived from 2 of these subspecies, many specimens being intermediate between them.

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