Citation: Dunlop, d. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 3:177 (1981).

Synonymy: Pterigeron adscendens Benth., Fl. Aust. 3:533 (1867).

Common name: Desert daisy.

Description:
Annual or short-lived perennial herb 10-40 cm high; stems erect or ascending, densely branched, slightly woody near the base; leaves oblanceolate, attenuate at the base, acute, 1-5 cm long, 3-17 mm wide, shallowly serrate to entire, scabrous-pubescent on both surfaces.

Capitula shortly pedunculate to subsessile, mostly in groups near the ends of leafy branches, with 20-40 florets, pink; involucre 0.7-1.1 cm long, 3-seriate, surrounded by an apparent whorl of 3 or 4 leaves 0.5-1.5 cm long; bracts pubescent to glabrescent, green or with purplish apices, the outer ones usually glandular; receptacle glandular, with deep fringed pits; female florets c. 3-seriate, usually ligulate; ligules 1-2 mm long, toothed; disk florets 4- or 5-merous.

Achenes 2-3 mm long, 6-8-ribbed, densely sericeous; pappus bristles 18-25, 2-seriate, 3-4 mm long.

Distribution:  In a range of habitats including sand dunes, clay flats and watercourses. S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT, FR, EA.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: most of the year, especially Aug. — Nov.

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

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