Citation: DC., Prod. 6:217 (1838).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Common white (or large white) sunray.

Description:
Annual herb 4-40 cm high, rarely perennial; stems numerous, ascending, branched, cobwebby to tomentose; leaves alternate or the lowermost subopposite, linear, acute, 1-4 cm long, 1-2.5 mm wide, minutely glandular-pubescent and usually sparsely to densely cobwebby, especially in the axils; margins recurved.

Capitula solitary on leafy branches which may be clustered to form a corymb; involucre hemispherical, becoming radiate, 8-12 mm long, 6-8-seriate, glabrous; outer bracts sessile or subsessile, lanceolate, subhyaline-scarious, white; inner bracts with oblong woolly scarious claws and white ovate to lanceolate acute spreading laminae 4-8 mm long; receptacle conical, densely setose in some specimens; florets 20-50; corollas bright-yellow.

Achenes narrow-obovoid, mostly curved, c. 1.5 mm long, cream-villous; pappus bristles 6-10, dilated and connate at the base, 2-3 mm long, evenly plumose, persistent.

Published illustration: Rotherham et al. (1975) Flowers and plants of New South Wales and southern Queensland, fig. 512.

Distribution:  In a wide range of habitats.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: mainly May — Oct.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: Inland populations of this species were differentiated by Black in Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 36:23 (1912) as var. tubulipappum. The variety was later synonymised with typical H. floribundum by Black, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 40:73 (1916), and is not recognised in this flora.

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