Citation: Wakef., Victorian Nat. 68:50 (1951).

Synonymy: H. ferrugineum (Labill.)Less. ex Steudel, Nom. Bot. edn 2, 739 (1840), non (Lam.)Pers.

Common name: Tree everlasting.

Description:
Erect shrub c. 2 m tall, rarely a small tree to 5 m tall; branches obscurely striate, with a close uneven dense vestiture of interwoven short tortuose hairs, with a shining exudate from underlying glandular hairs, the vestiture sometimes at length becoming restricted to the striations; leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, with narrowly recurved often undulate margins, acute apex and decurrent base, 2-5 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, discolorous, green, slightly shining and glabrous with sparse scurfy vestiture on the upper side, white to creamy-white on the underside with dense felty slightly shining vestiture except for the almost glabrous prominent midvein.

Capitula numerous in dense terminal corymbs, sessile or almost so, initially narrowly turbinate, in time becoming campanulate, 4-5 mm long, 2-4 mm diam.; involucral bracts 4- or 5- seriate, the inner ones longest; inner bracts oblong, slightly broadened into a rounded truncate glabrous lamina about a third the length of the bract, colourless and translucent in the lower half, opaque and white in the upper half where patent to reflexed; florets 4-7, all bisexual.

Achenes oblong, more or less circular in cross-section, sparsely pubescent with elongate antrorse papillae, dark-brown; pappus bristles 20-30, very finely barbellate, slightly more strongly so towards the apex.

Distribution:  Occurs in an understorey of tall heathy scrub on sand, sometimes in swampy areas.   N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Dec. — March.

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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