Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Rutidosis leptorhynchoides

Flower head. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Scottsdale Bush Heritage Reserve, near Bredbo

Back of flower head. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Scottsdale Bush Heritage Reserve, near Bredbo

Flowering plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Scottsdale Bush Heritage Reserve, near Bredbo

Common name

Button wrinklewort

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Woodland, grassland, and disturbed sites. ACT and nearby, Michelago on the Monaro Highway, and near Goulburn.

Notes

Perennial herb to 0.45 m high, tufted and arising from a woody rootstock, usually multistemmed. Stems more or less woolly towards the base, otherwise hairless, sometimes slightly sticky, the bases covered with brown scales of old leaf bases. Leaves mostly alternating up the stems, 0.5-5 cm long, 0.5–2 mm wide, more or less hairless, margins rolled down, tips rounded. Flower heads 8–22 mm in diameter, broad-hemispherical to hemispherical, surrounded by dull greenish bracts with stiff papery margins. Florets numerous, yellow to orange-yellow. Flower heads single. Flowering November-April. Does not usually flower until the second year.

Rutidosis leptorrhynchoides in NSW.

Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

Endangered ACT. All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.

NSW Threatened Species profile (as Rutidosis leptorrhynchoides):  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10739 (accessed 14 April 2021)

PlantNET description (as Rutidosis leptorrhynchoides)::  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Rutidosis~leptorrhynchoides  (accessed 14 April 2021)