Flora of New Zealand Series

Anacyclus australis Sieb. ex Spreng. Syst. Veg. 3, 1826, 497.

Strongylosperma australe Less. Syn. Comp. 1832, 261.

Cotula venosa Col. in T.N.Z.I. 23, 1891, 388.

Slender weak diffusely branched annual or winter annual up to ± 10 cm. tall, us. bearing lax spreading hairs. Lvs ± 12-30 mm. long, membr., ± oblong, pinnatisect to bipinnatisect; segs linear, entire, acute, sts apiculate. Scapes very slender; capitula ± 2.5-5 mm. diam.; phyll. in c. 2 series, narrow-oblong, obtuse. Florets white; ♀ ∞, in c. 3 series, on very slender pedicels; disk-florets perfect, very few. Achenes obovoid, glandular, wings thick.

DIST.: Three Kings, K., N., S., Ch. More or less common in lowland waste places. Buchanan records it from Campbell Id, a not impossible station, but no subsequent botanist has met with it there. Oliver (T.N.Z.I. 42, 1910, 178) records it from Kermadec Is without comment. In North Id and South Id I have seen it only in waste places and regard it as almost certainly introduced.