Coleocoma centaurea F.Muell.

Erect, short-lived, perennial subshrub to 50 cm high. Branching sympodial, with branches terminated by a capitulum. Leaves sessile, oblong or oblanceolate, 8–30 mm long, 2–6 mm wide, dentate with teeth widely spaced, acute at apex. Capitula sessile or nearly so, compact, urn-shaped, indehiscent, 10–15 mm long; involucral bracts in 3–4 series, ovate, mucronate to cuspidate, straw-coloured, with margins shortly lacerate. Disc corollas 6–7 mm long. Achenes 2.5–3 mm long, pale brown or red-brown, shining, closely and finely ribbed.

On brackish soils on the margins of clay pans and seasonal swamps.