Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leptorhynchos nitidulus

Flower head. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer AN Schmidt-Lebuhn, Tas

Flowering plants. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Line drawings. a. plant; outer and inner bract round the flower head (outer bract above); seed. M Moir, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Handsome Buttons, Shiny Buttons

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, heath, and clearings and roadsides, sometimes in swampy areas. Coast.

Notes

Slender stoloniferous herb to 0.35 m high. Stems pale, more or less cobwebby. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, 1–4 cm long, 1–4 mm wide, dull green, hairless except when young and then sparsely cobwebby, margins curved down; tips pointed. Flower head single, broadly bell-shaped to hemispherical, 7–8 mm long, 10–15 mm wide below the florets. Florets yellow. The bracts tightly pressed to the sides of the flower heads have blunt tips, and do not extend down the flower stalk. Flowering: spring to autumn.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leptorhynchos~nitidulus (accessed 22 January, 2021)