Citation: Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient. ser. 1, 3:57 (1843).

Synonymy: Fedia cornucopiae sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 802 (1957), partly, non (L.) Gaertner.

Common name: None

Description:
Annual with branches up to 40 cm long, first unbranched but more or less branched later, glabrous; leaves obovate, spathulate to petiolate at the base becoming ovate, pinnatifid and sessile below the inflorescence, 1.5-4 x 0.5-2 cm, obtuse to acute above, serrate at least on the upper half, glabrous.

Inflorescence a terminal thyrse with 1 to several dichasia with few to many sessile flowers; bracts linear-lanceolate, scale-like; calyx with numerous teeth inrolled in the flower, spreading and feather-like in fruit; corolla with a slender tube 6-8 mm long, with a basal spur c. I mm long, pink to white rarely reddish; lobes oblong-oblanceolate, 1-2 mm long, with a posterior one slightly longer; stamens 1; ovary inferior, with 3 cells but only I fully developed with 1 pendulous ov. ule, with a slender style and a terminal stigma with 3 thread-like branches spreading only when receptive.

Fruit oblong-ovoid, with a feathery pappus (fused one-third of its length) borne on a terminal circular ridge, compressed and with several ridges on one side.

	Habit and flower.
Image source: fig. 619A in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NL, SL, SE.   W.Aust.   Native to southern Spain. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: This species is superficially similar to Fedia gracilifiora except for the short spur, 1 stamen and glabrous corolla.

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