Citation: Reader, Victorian Nat. 19:97 (1902).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Dwarf centrolepis, cushion centrolepis.

Description:
Minute annual herb forming round moss-like or burr-like tufts 0.4-2 cm diam., pale-green; leaves crowded, subulate, acute, mucronate, 3-8 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, recurved, glabrous.

Scapes absent; heads terete, ovoid-conic, 2-3 mm long, 1-1.6 mm wide; primary bracts opposite, remaining almost closed, with keeled scarious straw-coloured bases, the outer bract with a recurved subulate lamina 2-4 mm long, the inner one acute without a lamina; pseudanthia 1-3; secondary bracts absent; female florets 4-10 per pseudanthium; styles connate to half their length.

Seed c. 0.5 mm long.

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

Author: Not yet available