Citation: Paul G. Wilson, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 83:166 (1960).

Synonymy: H. incanum F. Muell., Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 3:134 (1880), non DC.; H. albicans sensu J. Black, FI.S. Aust. 624 (1929), partly, non DC.

Common name: Hill sunray.

Description:
Perennial herb or undershrub to 40 cm high; stems erect or ascending, few-branched, white-woolly, terete, with a thick woody base; leaves alternate, oblong to narrow-obovate or elliptic, subamplexicaul, obtuse to acuminate, apiculate, 1-4 cm long, 3-11 mm wide, flat with undulate recurved margins, white-woolly on both surfaces.

Capitula solitary on peduncles 1-8 cm long, with 1-3 linear herbaceous bracts to 5 mm long; involucre hemispherical, becoming radiate, 8-10 mm long, 7-9-seriate, densely woolly at the base; outer bracts lanceolate, acute, pallid, scarious; inner bracts with narrow-linear claws and white or pale-pink ovate to elliptic acute spreading laminae 3-6 mm long; innermost laminae obtuse, c. 3 mm long; receptacle flat; florets numerous.

Achenes truncate, c. 2 mm long, glabrous, densely papillose, brown; pappus bristles 12-22, very shortly connate, 5-6 mm long, evenly plumose, persistent.

Distribution:  Among rocks and on sand hills.   N.T.; Qld; N.S.W. Conservation status: native Flowering time: May — Sept.

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

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