Citation: Steetz ex Sonder, Linnaea 25:512 (1853).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Woolly everlasting.

Description:
Erect perennial herb 20-50 cm tall with a branched crown at the base; stems several, usually branched, with a dense felty vestiture of woolly hairs; leaves oblanceolate, usually narrowly so, or sometimes narrowly elliptic, flat, acute to acuminate with a soft dark mucro, with a cuneate sessile base, mostly 2-4 cm long, 5-8 mm wide, thick and felty with a dense woolly vestiture on both sides.

Capitula 6-12 in rather dense terminal leafy corymbs, these sometimes grouped into panicle-like aggregations, broadly campanulate (the laminae of the involucral bracts oblique to patent at flowering), 1.3-1.7 cm long when pressed (including the laminae) eventually 2-2.5 cm diam.; involucral bracts 6-8-seriate, the intermediate ones longest; outermost bracts enveloped in and largely obscured by long woolly-cobwebby hairs; intermediate bracts with scarious white or sometimes pinkish opaque narrowly elliptic blunt laminae and short firm subherbaceous linear cobwebby-hairy claws about a fifth of their length, 11-13 mm long in total length and exceeding the florets by 9-10 mm; florets numerous, all bisexual; style branches unevenly capitate (longer abaxially), shortly papillose.

Achenes oblong, subterete but slightly 4-angled in cross-section, not compressed, antrorsely scabrous with coarse papillae, a pale grey-brown; pappus bristles 15-20, free, barbellate from the base, slightly more coarsely so towards the apex, dull-white.

Distribution:  Occurs in heathland on deep usually siliceous sands.   Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: mainly Sept. — Dec.

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

Biology: No text

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