Citation: DC., Prod. 6:216 (1838).

Synonymy: Helichrysum anthemoides Sieber ex Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 3:484 (1826).

Common name: Chamomile sunray.

Description:
Perennial herb 20-40 cm high, with a short woody rootstock; stems numerous, erect, simple, light-brown, glabrous; leaves alternate, narrow-linear to subulate, subamplexicaul, acute, 5-15 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, glabrous, pitted in dried material.

Capitulum solitary on a peduncle 1-2 cm long, hardly distinguishable from the stem, with shorter leaves; involucre hemispherical, becoming radiate, 10-14mm long, 4- or 5-seriate, glabrous; outer bracts broad-ovate, sessile, scarious, brown; inner bracts with oblong cartilaginous claws and white oblong-elliptic obtuse spreading laminae 6-8 mm long; receptacle flat; florets 30-40.

Achenes obovoid, c. 3 mm long, white-sericeous; pappus bristles 13-20, free, c. 4 mm long, evenly plumose from the base, persistent.

Distribution:    Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Nov.

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

Biology: Nineteenth century collections have been seen from Belair, and have been reported from "near Adelaide", "between Bethany and Lyndoch Valley" and "Mt Remarkable"; no recent collections

Author: Not yet available