Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Argyrotegium nitidulum
Shining cudweed
Asteraceaae
Heath, grassland, herbfields, and near streams and bogs. Kosciuszko National Park. One record on the tablelands from between Jindabyne and Dalgety.
Mat- or cushion-forming perennial herb to 0.03 m high, rooting from the nodes. Flower stalks woolly, densely covered at the base with the dried remains of old leaves. Leaves crowded toward the branch-tips, 0.5–0.7 cm long, 2–3 mm wide, covered with shining, silvery to rust-coloured appressed hairs on both surfaces. Flower heads about 9-10 mm in diameter, with 0 petals. Bracts surrounding the flower heads brownish, with long hairs at the base, hairless, shining, dry and translucent in the upper half. Inner btsscts 7-9 mm long. Flower heads single. Flowering: December –March
Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
Rare Vic.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10320 (accessed 3 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Argyrotegium~nitidulum (accessed 3 January, 2021)
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