Podotheca chrysantha

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|genus = Podotheca

|species = chrysantha

|authority = (Steetz) Benth.Bentham, G. (1867) Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 602.

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|range_map_caption = Occurrence data from AVH

|synonyms = Ixiolaena chrysantha Steetz

Podosperma chrysanthum F.Muell.

|synonyms_ref = Govaerts, R. et al. (2019) [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:239065-1 Plants of the world online: Podotheca chrysantha.] Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 25 January 2019.

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Podotheca chrysantha is a small herb in the family Asteraceae endemic to Western Australia. It grows from 0.2 to 0.5 m high, and has yellow flowers which are seen from August to December. It grows in sand over limestone or laterite on limestone ridges and in wet depressions.

Taxonomy

It was first described in 1845 by Joachim Steetz as Ixiolaena chrysantha.Steetz, J. (1845) in Lehmann, J.G.C. (ed.) Compositae. Plantae Preissianae 1(3): 459. In 1867 it was assigned to the genus Podotheca by George Bentham.

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{{APNI2|id=94380|name=Podotheca chrysantha|accessdate=24 January 2019}}

{{FloraBase|id=8183|name=Podotheca chrysantha|accessdate=24 January 2019}}

{{APNI2|id=89994|name=Ixiolaena chrysantha|accessdate=24 January 2019}}

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