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Gnephosis

Gnephosis
Photo: Mark Marathon, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual

About

Gnephosis is a genus of about sixteen flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, all endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus Gnephosis are hairy annual herbs, the upper leaves arranged alternately, the lower leaves sessile and arranged in opposite pairs. The flowers are arranged in narrowly elliptic to oblong heads with up to 300 flowers, each with up to 16 bisexual florets. The achenes are pink or pale purple and more or less cone-shaped, sometimes without a pappus.

Where it grows

Plants in the genus Gnephosis occur in all Australian states and the Northern Territory.

Other Gnephosis plants

Zigzag Gnephosis · Gnephosis angianthoides · Cobwebby Headed Gnephosis · Short Leaved Gnephosis · Gnephosis cassiniana · Gnephosis drummondii · Gnephosis eriocarpa · Gnephosis gynotricha · Gnephosis macrocephala · Gnephosis multiflora · Gnephosis newbeyi · Gnephosis setifera

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gnephosis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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