Angianthus

Angianthus pusillus, copyright Mark Marathon.

Belongs within: Gnaphalieae.

Angianthus is an Australian genus of composite plants with compound flower-heads in which the involucres of the partial heads are compressed and composed of only a few bracts (Black & Robertson 1965).

Characters (from Black & Robertson 1965). Herbs with alternate entire leaves. Partial flower-heads numerous, few-flowered, crowded on a general receptacle in a dense compound terminal head; general involucre never conspicuous, consisting of a few empty basal bracts similar to those subtending partial involucres or of scarious bracts not longer than enclosed partial involucres, and concealed by floral leaves; partial involucres usually compresssed, consisting of two to several hyaline bracts, mostly opposite in pairs, outer involucres concave or conduplicate, inner involucres flat; flowers tubular, bisexual, yellow, usually five-toothed; anthers tailed; pappus various or absent.

<==Angianthus Wendland 1809 (nom. cons.) [incl. Siloxerus Labillardière 1806] BR65
    |--A. acrohyalinus KM08
    |--A. brachypappus BR65
    |    |--A. b. var. brachypappus BR65
    |    `--A. b. var. conocephalus BR65
    |--A. burkittii [=Gnephosis burkittii Bentham 1866; incl. A. whitei Black 1913] BR65
    |--A. cunninghamii KM08
    |--A. humifusus RL05 [=Siloxerus humifusus GK00]
    |--A. microcephalus KM08
    |--A. milnei KM08
    |--‘Siloxerus’ multiflorus OS04
    |--A. phyllocalymmeus (von Mueller) Domin. 1923 (see below for synonymy) BR65
    |--A. preissianus [=Skirrophorus preissianus; incl. A. eriocephalus] BR65
    |--A. pusillus BR65
    |--A. strictus [=Skirrophorus strictus] BR65
    |--A. tenellus BR65
    `--A. tomentosus BR65

Angianthus phyllocalymmeus (von Mueller) Domin. 1923 [=Pleuropappus phyllocalymmeus von Mueller 1855; incl. A. pleuropappus Bentham 1866] BR65

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[BR65] Black, J. M., & E. L. Robertson. 1965. Flora of South Australia. Part IV. Oleaceae–Compositae. W. L. Hawes, Government Printer: Adelaide.

[GK00] Gibson, N., & G. J. Keighery. 2000. Flora and vegetation of the Byenup-Muir reserve system, south-west Western Australia. CALMScience 3 (3): 323–402.

[KM08] Keighery, G. J., & W. Muir. 2008. Vegetation and vascular flora of Faure Island, Shark Bay, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 75: 11–19.

[OS04] Obbens, F. J., & L. W. Sage. 2004. Vegetation and flora of a diverse upland remnant of the Western Australian wheatbelt (Nature Reserve A21064). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 87 (1): 19–28.

[RL05] Rafferty, C., & B. B. Lamont. 2005. Selective feeding by macropods on vegetation regenerating following fire. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 88 (4): 155–165.