Citation: Benth., Fl. Aust. 3:483 (1867).

Synonymy: Aster glandulosus Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. Sp. 2:50, t. 197 (1804).

Common name: Swamp daisy-bush.

Description:
Slender glutinous shrub to 1.5 m high; stems erect, woody, densely branched, glabrous, striate; leaves sessile, patent to erect, linear, acute, entire, 1-6 cm long, c. 1 mm wide, glabrous, shiny, dark-green, concolorous, with numerous glandular dots visible as lumps in dried material, compressed-terete, channelled above, convex below.

Capitula 5-20, in dense terminal corymbose panicles; involucre campanulate, 2-3 mm long; bracts c. 2-seriate, lanceolate, acute, minutely glandular; ray florets 12-20; ligules oblanceolate, 3-6 mm long, white to pink; disk florets 15-20, yellowish.

Achenes terete, c. 1 mm long, striate, pubescent; pappus bristles 25-35, c. 2 mm long, subequal, white.

Distribution:  Mainly in swamps and low-lying ground. S.Aust.: SL, SE.   N.S.W.; Vic; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Nov. — April.

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

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