Gnephosis multiflora
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|genus = Gnephosis
|species = multiflora
|authority = (P.S.Short) P.S.Short{{cite web |title=Gnephosis multiflora |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/115662|publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=18 June 2025}}
|synonyms =
- Chrysocoryne multiflora P.S.Short
- Chrysocoryne sp. A
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Gnephosis multiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, annual herb with more or less elliptic or egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, compound heads of yellow flowers, and purplish cypselas.
Description
Gnephosis multiflora is an erect annual herb that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|2.5–4|cm}}. Its leaves are more or less elliptic or lance-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, sometimes more or less linear, about {{cvt|3–5|mm}} long and {{cvt|0.1–0.2|mm}} wide. The pseudanthia are arranged in compound heads of 50 to 250, {{cvt|5–20|mm}} long and {{cvt|2.5–4|mm}} in diameter with 2 to 4 bracts {{cvt|1.4–1.65|mm}} long at base of the heads. The petals are yellow and form a tube {{cvt|0.6–0.7|mm}} long and there are three to five stamens. Flowering occurs in November, and the fruit is a purplish cypsela, {{cvt|0.4|mm}} long, but there is no pappus.{{FloraBase|name=Gnephosis multiflora|id=7999}}{{cite journal |last1=Short |first1=Philip Sydney |title=A revision of Angianthus Wendl., sensu lato (Compositae: Inuleae: Gnaphaliinae), 2. |journal=Muelleria |date=1983 |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=192–193 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/209941#page/80/mode/1up |access-date=18 June 2025}}
Taxonomy and naming
This species was first formally described in 1983 by Philip Short who gave it the name Chrysocoryne multiflora in the journal Muelleria from specimens collected about "just east of Meckering" in 1978.{{cite web |title=Chrysocoryne multiflora |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/477148 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=18 June 2025}} In 1987, Short transferred the species to Gnephosis as G. multiflora in a later edition of Muelleria.{{cite web |title=Gnephosis multiflora |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/550291 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=18 June 2025}} The specific epithet (multiflora) means 'many-flowered'.
Distribution and habitat
Gnephosis multiflora grows in sandy saline soils on river flats and the margins of salt lakes in the Avon Wheatbelt and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
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Category:Flora of Western Australia