Apiaceae

Herbs or small shrubs; epigynous disc usually swelling at the base of the styles on the fruit Apiaceae

Leaves and bracts never pungent pointed

Flowers numerous, crowded, surrounded by radiating involucral bracts exceeding the flowers, the whole resembling a head. Fruit undivided Actinotus

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Involucre less than 3 cm diam. Plants diffuse, with wiry branches, glabrous or silky hairy.

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Peduncles less than 1 cm long. Leaves glabrous or slightly hairy, up to 15 mm long. Involucre 3–8 mm diam. Flowers pinkish. Ascending or decumbent annual or perennials with stems up to 50 cm long. Western Blue Mts DSF and heath. Sandy soils. Fl. spring–summer Actinotus gibbonsii

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Peduncles more than 2 cm long