Podotheca
(from pous, podos, a foot, and theke, a cell or capsule; alluding to the stalk of the fruit). SYNS. Lophoclinium, Phaenopoda, Podosperma. ORD. Compositae. A genus comprising five species of glabrous or scabrous-pubescent, erect, hardy, Australian annuals, not woolly, or rarely the involucre very slightly so. Flower-heads yellow, homogamous, rather large, sometimes very long, on terminal peduncles, usually dilated under the involucre; involucre cylindrical, conical, or campanulate, with imbricated, herbaceous bracts; receptacle without scales; florets tubular, five-toothed. P. gnaphalioides is a plant of little beauty; it thrives in any ordinary garden soil, and may be readily increased by seeds.
P. gnaphalioides (Gnaphalium-like). fl.-heads on long peduncles; florets very slender, considerably longer than the involucre and pappus. June. l. linear or lanceolate, the lower ones narrowed below the middle, all stem-clasping, and sometimes shortly decurrent. h. 1ft. to 1 1/2ft. 1841. (B. M. 3920.)