Picris angustifolia DC. APNI* Description: Annual to perennial, 7–140 cm high, with sparse to dense simple and 2-fid hooked hairs, stems few-branched.
Leaves few, petiolate below, sessile above, linear to narrow-ovate or oblanceolate, to 40 cm long, 3.5 cm wide, obtuse to acute, entire to dentate.
Peduncles with up to 6 bracts below the head, heads 3–10 mm diameter,in loose terminal corymbs, involucral bracts with lines of simple and 2-fid hooked hairs, ligules 7–19 mm long, ligules 7–19 mm long.
Cypselas 3–11 mm long, with beak usually shorter than body, pappus of bristles 4–10.5 mm long.
Flowering: Flowers September to April.
Distribution and occurrence: Not common. Grows in scrub, grassy woodland, alpine herbfields or open sclerophyll forest.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, ?SWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas. S.A. W.A.
Text by Walsh & Entwisle (1999)
Taxon concept: Lack & Holzapfel (1993)
| | Key to the subspecies | |
| 1 | Heads in flower 0.8–1.0 cm long, in fruit 0.8–1.2 cm long; achenes with very short to short cuspis, hairs along midrib on involucral bracts, if present in a single line | subsp. carolorum-henricorum |
| Heads in flower 1.0–1.4 cm long, in fruit 1.2–1.8 cm long; achenes with short to very long cuspis, hairs along midrib of involucral bracts, if present in a single or mutiple line | 2 |
| 2 | Heads often in a cyme panicle, achenes mostly 5–6 mm long, cuspis c. a sixth to one tenth of the length of the achene; indumentum on outer involucral bracts fine usually if hairs present in a single line | subsp. merxmuelleri |
| Heads mostly in a loose panicle, achenes mostly 2–10 mm long, cuspis about a third to half the length of the achene; indumentum on outer involucral bracts hispid, if present in multiple lines
Back to 1 | subsp. angustifolia |
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