Citation: N. Burb., Brunonia 5:47 (1982).

Synonymy: V. triloba sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 595 (1929), partly, non DC.

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial herb 12-30 cm high; stems rigidly erect, branched; vestiture hirsute or somewhat strigose, of glandular and non-glandular hairs; leaves subconduplicate, narrow-oblanceolate, with attenuate base, 1-2.2 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, entire or with 2 small lateral lobes; apices apiculate, recurved.

Involucres 7.5-9.5 mm long; bracts linear-elliptic, acute to acuminate, hirsute; ray florets 2- or 3-seriate, violet, usually drying pink.

Achene flattened, oblanceolate to cuneate, 4.5-6.5 mm long; marginal ridges with very short 2-fid clavate hairs; faces with ribs all extending to the summit, bearing longer 2-fid clavate hairs and a few minute glandular hairs; pappus bristles multiseriate, barbellate, 7-8 mm long.

Distribution:  In woodland, mallee and cleared land. S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL.   N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Oct.

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

Biology: Closely related to V. cuneata, from which it differs in usually having more sharply recurved leaf apices but can be reliably distinguished only by the achenes.

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