Dichromochlamys dentatifolia (F.Muell.) Dunlop APNI* 
Description: Herb 8–25 cm high; stems decumbent to ascending, villous to woolly, rarely glabrous.
Leaves narrow-spathulate to oblong-cuneate, 1–3.5 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, margins toothed apically or rarely entire, surfaces villous to woolly, rarely glabrous, glandular, base petiole-like.
Heads 6–12 mm diam.; scape 2–7 cm long, glandular; involucral bracts 4–7-seriate, 5–10 mm long, glandular, the outer ones broader and rigid. Ray florets white to pink; ligule c. 3 mm long. Disc florets yellow.
Achenes obovate, constricted at apex, 1.8–2 mm long, silky in lower part, glandular apically; pappus 4–5 mm long, bristles uneven with the outer series shortest.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in Mitchell Grass and Bladder Saltbush communities on stony soils; isolated records from the extreme northwest.
NSW subdivisions: NFWP
Other Australian states: Qld S.A. N.T.
Text by M. F. Porteners
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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