Streptoglossa macrocephala
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| Streptoglossa macrocephala | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Streptoglossa |
| Species: | S. macrocephala |
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| Streptoglossa macrocephala | |
Streptoglossa macrocephala is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a spreading or upright perennial herb with pink to purple flowers. It grows in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
Streptoglossa macrocephala is an upright perennial herb or shrub to 30–100 cm (12–39 in) high. The leaves and branches are strongly fragrant, and covered with soft, weak, separated thin hairs to almost smooth, thickly glandular and occasionally shiny. The leaves are oblong-lance shaped, egg-shaped or elliptic, 10–38 mm (0.39–1.50 in) long, 4–15 mm (0.16–0.59 in) wide, stem clasping or rarely gradually narrowing at the base, margins smooth or toothed or slightly lobed, and rounded or pointed at the apex. The pink to purple "flowers" are sometimes covered by upper leaves, florets in a group of 60-100. Flowering occurs from July to September and the fruit is dry, one-seeded, 3–4.5 mm (0.12–0.18 in) long, ribbed and covered in silky, flattened hairs.[2][3]