Centrolepis strigosa (R.Br.) Poir. APNI* 
Description: Annual tufted herb 2–11 cm high.
Leaves numerous, radiating, sheath with multicellular hairs, margins hyaline; lamina 7–30 mm long, c. 0.4 mm wide, hairs erect, rarely glabrous.
Scape terete, 1–10 cm long, glabrous or with fine hairs; heads ovoid, 3–4 mm long, 2–4 mm wide. Primary bracts separated by 1–2 mm long internode, gaping, subequal; bracts with sheath abruptly contracted into glabrous mucro c. 0.5 mm long; sheath herbaceous with narrow-hyaline margins, hairy. Pseudanthia 10–20, bisexual; secondary bracts 2 (or 3) per pseudanthium, 2–2.5 mm long, hyaline, usually truncate, erose, with additional secondary bracts between pseudanthia. Female flowers 4–8 per pseudanthium.
Seeds ovoid, c. 0.5 mm long.
Flowering: September–November
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in heath, scrub, mallee, woodland and sclerophyll forest on sand or infertile soils; mostly east and north of the A.C.T., but recorded in scattered localities west to Deniliquin.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, SWS, NWP, SWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas. S.A. W.A.
Text by E. A. Brown
Taxon concept:
| N.S.W. occurrences are: subsp. strigosa |
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