''Podolepis gracilis'' (common name slender podolepis) is a slender, perennial herb native to

Western Australia Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Aust ...

, belonging to the

Asteraceae Asteraceae () is a large family (biology), family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the Order (biology), order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchi ...

family.

Taxonomy

The species was first described in 1828 by Robert Graham based on plant material grown from seed said to have been collected in New South Wales and sent to England by Charles Fraser, the NSW colonial botanist.

Description

Graham described the plant as follows:

References

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''Podolepis gracilis'' occurrence data
from the

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q15594802 gracilis Flora of Western Australia