Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Argyrotegium nitidulum
Common name
Shining cudweed
Family
Asteraceaae
Where found
Heath, grassland, herbfields, and near streams and bogs. Kosciuszko National Park. One record on the tablelands from between Jindabyne and Dalgety.
Notes
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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