Family: Asteraceae
Helichrysum ambiguum
Citation:
Turcz., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 24:195 (1851).
Synonymy: Leptorhynchos ambiguus (Turcz.)Benth., Fl. Aust. 3:609 (1867); H. semicalrum F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 2:156 (1861); L. ambiguus (Turcz.) Benth. var. semicalvus (F. Muell.) Benth., Fl. Aust. 3:609 (1867).
Common name: Hill everlasting.
Description:
Malodorous bushy tap-rooted perennial herb 20-40 cm tall and up to 50 cm diam., with successive seasons' growth from the lower woody branches or from the rootstock; stems and branches glandular-scabrid and with sparse to dense vestiture of woolly-cobwebby hairs or rarely such hairs absent; leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, margins recurved to revolute, sometimes undulate, acuminate to apiculate, with a broadly sessile base, mostly 0.8-3 cm long, 1-4 mm wide, with a vestiture like that of the stems, especially on the underside, or lacking woolly-cobwebby hairs.
Peduncles 2-8 cm long, naked or with a few distant much-reduced leaves, terminating leafy branches; capitula broadly campanulate to hemispherical, 6-10 mm long; involucral bracts all about equal in length, with laciniate margins extending into long cobwebby hairs loosely enveloping the involucre or such hairs absent, the majority hyaline to scarious with more or less opaque tips, stramineous to golden-brown, the outer ones lanceolate, the inner ones with linear herbaceous glandular-pubescent claws and subulate laminae; florets exceeding the involucre by 1-2 mm.
Achenes oblong, compressed, glabrous; pappus-bristles of bisexual florets 12-20, barbellate, more strongly so towards the apex, of female florets absent or rarely 1 or 2.
Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 701.
Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
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