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Keys
  • Vascular plant groups
  • Club mosses
  • Ferns
  • Vegetative key to families
  • Gymnosperms
  • Flowering plants
  • Genera
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Vascular plants

Magnoliophyta

Magnoliopsida

Asteraceae

Vittadinia

  • Vittadinia tenuissima
  • Vittadinia muelleri
  • Vittadinia hispidula
  • Vittadinia dissectadissecta
  • Vittadinia gracilis
  • Vittadinia pustulata
  • Vittadinia sulcata
  • Vittadinia cuneatacuneata
  • Vittadinia cervicularis

Vittadinia A.Rich.

27 species in Aust. (25 endemic); all states and territories

Perennial herbs up to 40 cm high, usually with a woody base. Leaves alternate. Heads solitary on leafy peduncles. Involucre cylindrical or campanulate; bracts in 3–5 unequal rows, with scarious margins. Ray florets female, in 2 or more rows; rays narrow. Disc florets fewer, tubular, bisexual. Cypselas narrow, compressed. Pappus of numerous capillary bristles.