Citation: Benth., Fl. Aust. 3:641. (1867).

Synonymy: Schoenia chlorocephala Turcz., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 24:193 (1851); H. roseum (Hook.) Benth. var. patens J. Black, Trans. R.Soc. S. Aust. 45:21 (1921).

Common name: Western sunray.

Description:
Annual herb 2-18 cm high; stems several, erect to ascending, simple, pale-brown, glabrous; leaves alternate, oblanceolate to elliptic, attenuate at the base, subacute, 3-12 mm long, 0.8-2 mm wide, thick, glabrous.

Capitula solitary, terminal on the stem; involucre hemispherical, becoming radiate, 5- or 6-seriate, glabrous; outer bracts broad-ovate, scarious, greenish-brown; inner bracts with oblong greenish cartilaginous claws and white ovate acute spreading laminae 2-6 mm long; receptacle steeply conical; florets 12-40.

Achenes obovoid-gibbous, c. 2 mm long, white-villous with clavate hairs; pappus bristles 12-18, free, c. 3 mm long, plumose except at the base, with a dense terminal tuft of clavate hairs which may be yellowish or colourless, persistent.

Distribution:  On sand hills and clay pans.   W.Aust. Conservation status: native Flowering time: July — Oct.

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

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