Leptorhynchos squamatus (Labill.) Less. APNI* Synonyms: Conyza squamata Labill. APNI*
Chrysocoma squamata Labill. APNI*
Leptorhynchus squamatus APNI*
Description: Erect or ascending herb 10–40 cm high, stems leafy, usually simple, woolly to glabrescent and shiny red-brown with age.
Leaves oblong or narrow-oblanceolate, 1.5–3.5 cm long, 2–4 mm wide; upper surface green and minutely glandular, glabrescent or ± hirsute with long glistening hairs, or rarely sparsely appressed-hairy; lower surface glabrescent or sparsely hirsute or pubescent with appressed woolly hairs or woolly only in apical half.
Compound heads terminal on peduncles 5–15 cm long; heads campanulate, 7–10 mm long, 8–15 mm diam.; involucral bracts extending down peduncle, mostly scarious, colourless or brown-tinged; innermost strongly reflexed at maturity. Florets yellow, female florets few or absent.
Achenes oblong to falcate, obscurely 4-angled, with very fine papillae; pappus much shorter than the floret at maturity, barbate, similar in all florets.
Flowering: summer–autumn.
Distribution and occurrence: Usually at higher altitudes, in open areas or in low-growing grassland; south from Glen Innes district.
NSW subdivisions: NC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, SWS, NWP, SWP
Other Australian states: Vic. Tas. S.A.
Text by J. Everett
Taxon concept:
| | Key to the subspecies | |
| 1 | Leaves concolorous, upper surface hirsute, lower surface hirsute or glabrescent or woolly only on the upper half; tip of the bracts acuminate, dark, margins comb-like with long cilia | subsp. squamatus |
| Leaves discolorous, upper surface hirsute or glabrescent, lower surface white-woolly for the whole surface; tip of the bracts acute, pale, the margins ciliate with tangled woolly hairs | subsp. alpinus |
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