''Streptoglossa liatroides'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

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. It is a low, spreading or upright perennial herb with pink or red to purple flowers. It grows in South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

Description

''Streptoglossa liatroides '' is a short-lived, upright or with prostrate stems, annual or perennial herb growing to about high, and sparsely branched. The leaves and branches are faintly fragrant, and covered with soft, weak, separated thin hairs and glandular. The leaves are oblong-lance shaped or spoon-shaped, long, wide, gradually narrowing at the base, margins smooth or toothed and rounded or pointed at the apex. The "flowers" are borne singly on branches at least long, florets in a group of 50-190, corolla long, glandular and with 5 lobes. Flowering occurs from April to November and the fruit is dry, one-seeded, long, ribbed, thickly or sparsely covered in silky, flattened hairs.

Taxonomy and naming

''Streptoglossa liatroides'' was first described by

Nicolai Stepanovitch Turczaninow Nikolai Stepanovich Turczaninow (; 1796 – ) was a Russian botanist and plant collector who first identified several genera and many species of plants. Education and career Born in 1796, Turczaninow attended high school in Kharkov. In 181 ...

as ''Erigeron liatroides''. In 1981 Clyde Robert Dunlop changed the name to ''Streptoglossa liatroides'' and the description was published in ''

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''. The

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(''liatroides'') means like the genus ''Liatris''.

Distribution and habitat

Wertaloona daisy grows in a variety of soils including coastal limestone, and sometimes on stony flats near sand dunes.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15554598 Asterales of Australia Flora of the Northern Territory Flora of Western Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of South Australia liatroides