Gnephosis angianthoides
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| Gnephosis angianthoides | |
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| Near Morawa | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Gnephosis |
| Species: | G. angianthoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Gnephosis angianthoides | |
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Gnephosis angianthoides is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect annual herb with linear leaves, yellow flowers in egg-shaped heads, and purple cypselas.
Gnephosis angianthoides is an erect annual herb with major branches 2.5–20 cm (0.98–7.87 in) long and usually erect, sometimes low-lying. The leaves are sessile, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, sometimes egg-shaped to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, about 2.2–19 mm (0.087–0.748 in) long and 1.1–3.4 mm (0.043–0.134 in) wide. The pseudanthia are arranged in compound heads of 8 to 280, 2.2–19 cm (0.87–7.48 in) long and 1.1–3.4 mm (0.043–0.134 in) wide with 6 or 7 bracts at the base of the heads. The petals are yellow and form a tube 1.0–1.2 mm (0.039–0.047 in) long and there are five stamens. Flowering mostly occurs from about late September to November and the fruit is a purple cypsela 0.4–0.5 mm (0.016–0.020 in) long, the pappus of 3 to 7 scale-like bristles about the length of the petals.[2][3]