Gnephosis uniflora
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| Gnephosis uniflora | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Gnephosis |
| Species: | G. uniflora |
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| Gnephosis uniflora | |
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Gnephosis uniflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, annual herb with narrowly elliptic, elliptic to egg-shaped or lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and covered with scale-like hairs, compound heads of 50 to 150 yellow flowers, and oval, purplish cypselas.
Gnephosis uniflora is an erect annual herb up to 8 cm (3.1 in) high and covered with scale-like hairs. Its leaves are narrowly elliptic, elliptic to egg-shaped or lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 2–8 mm (0.079–0.315 in) long and 0.5–2 mm (0.020–0.079 in) wide and densely covered with scale-like hairs. The pseudanthia are arranged in cylindrical to narrowly oblong compound heads of 50 to 150, 15–44 mm (0.59–1.73 in) long and 1.5–2.5 mm (0.059–0.098 in) in diameter with 2 bracts and one or two florets in each pseudanthium. The petals are yellow and there are 5 stamens. Flowering occurs from September to November, and fruit is an oval, purplish cypsela, 0.4–0.5 mm (0.016–0.020 in) long, but there is no pappus.[2]