''Trichanthodium skirrophorum'' (common name - Yellow woolly-heads) is a plant species in the

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family (daisies), first described by Otto Wilhelm Sonder and

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in 1853. It is an erect annual herb growing from 0.03 to 0.35 m high, and flowering from August to October. It is found in all mainland states and territories of

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, growing on floodplains, saline flats, claypans, sand or gypsum dunes, and ridges. In Victoria, it is considered "vulnerable".

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''Trichanthodium skirrophorum'' Occurrence data
from the

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