Gnephosis


Gnephosis is a genus of about sixteen flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, all endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus Gnephosis are hairy annual herbs, the upper leaves arranged alternately, the lower leaves sessile and arranged in opposite pairs. The flowers are arranged in narrowly elliptic to oblong heads with up to 300 flowers, each with up to 16 bisexual florets. The achenes are pink or pale purple and more or less cone-shaped, sometimes without a pappus.

Taxonomy

The genus Gnephosis was first formally described in 1820 by Henri Cassini in the Bulletin des Sciences par la Société Philomatique de Paris, and the first species he described was Gnephosis tenuissima.

Distribution

Plants in the genus Gnephosis occur in all Australian states and the Northern Territory.

Species list

The following is a list of Gnephosis species accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at 6 May 2025:

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