Citation: Cunn. ex DC., Prod. 6:193 (1838).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Fringed (or white) everlasting.

Description:
Erect perennial herb 15-40 cm tall with successive seasons growth from a branched woody crown at the base; stems numerous, unbranched, with a dense white felty vestiture of woolly hairs; leaves narrowly linear, with recurved to revolute margins, an acute apex and a slightly broadened sessile base, 0.5-3 cm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, discolorous, on the upper side at first cobwebby, at length becoming almost glabrous, on underside densely and closely white-woolly.

Capitula solitary, terminal, on peduncles bearing reduced leaves, broadly campanulate (the laminae of the bracts patent at flowering), 1-2 cm long (including the laminae) when pressed, eventually 2-3 cm diam.; involucral bracts 10-12-seriate, lanceolate, acute, with ciliate margins (the cilia in length about a fifth as wide as the lamina), the intermediate ones longest; outermost bracts wholly scarious, brown; intermediate bracts with opaque scarious white laminae, some tinged brown outside on tips, with slender linear rigid dry claws, 9-13 mm long in total length and exceeding the florets by 5-9 ram; florets numerous, all bisexual; style branches truncate, long-papillose.

Achenes oblong, more or less rectangular in cross-section with more or less prominent angles, compressed, obscurely papillose, pale-brown; pappus bristles not connate, barbellate for most of their length from the base, coarsely plumose at the apex, white, of bisexual florets 6, of female ones 0-2.

Published illustration: Cochrane et al. (1968) Flowers and plants of Victoria, fig. 122.

Distribution:  On open sites in sclerophyll forest and heartland, on deep sand or on shallower well drained sandy skeletal soils.   N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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