Streptoglossa tenuiflora

Streptoglossa tenuiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is an upright perennial or annual herb with pink to purple flowers. It is endemic to Western Australia.

Description
Streptoglossa tenuiflora is an upright, annual or perennial herb to 30 cm high. The leaves and branches are slightly fragrant, and covered with soft, weak, separated thin hairs or with long, soft, straight hairs and glandular. The lower leaves are oblong-lance shaped, 25-40 mm long, 3-8 mm wide, tapering at the base, irregularly toothed. The upper leaves oblong-lance shaped to linear, 6-25 mm long and 0.5-3 mm wide. The pink or blue-purple "flowers" are arranged in loose corymbs  and florets in a group of about 90. The disc floret corolla about 6 mm long, 4 or 5 lobed and glandular. Flowering occurs from April to October and the fruit is dry, one-seeded, about 2 mm long, ribbed and covered in silky, flattened hairs.

Taxonomy and naming
Streptoglossa tenuiflora was first described in 1981 by Clyde Robert Dunlop and the description was published in  Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden. The specific epithet (tenuiflora) means "thin flowered".

Distribution and habitat
This streptoglossa grows on clay, edges of streams and mud flats north of Carnarvon to the Kimberley region.