Citation: W.M. Curtis, Student's Fl. Tasm. 2:463 (1963).

Synonymy: H. gunnii (Hook. f.) Benth, subsp. paralium N. Burb., Aust. J. Bot. 6:265 (1958); H. cinereum sensu F. Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Aust. 3:629 (1867), partly, non (Labill.) F. Muell. ex Benth.

Common name: Coast everlasting.

Description:
Erect bushy shrub 1-2 m tall; branches with a persistent very dense close white felty vestiture of matted woolly hairs; juvenile leaves greyish-white with a dense close woolly vestiture, otherwise similar to mature foliage; mature leaves linear, with recurved margins partly concealing the underside, with a bluntly acute apex and a broadly sessile base, 1-2.5 cm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, green and sparsely woolly-cobwebby above, with scattered minute glandular hairs, densely white-felly on the underside, usually yellow with exudate from underlying glandular hairs at least at the base.

Capitula numerous in more or less dense terminal corymbs, on short peduncles (5-10 mm), turbinate to narrowly campanulate, 6-8 mm long, 5-7 mm diam.; involucral bracts 6-8-seriate, the inner ones longest; outer bracts thick, dry, opaque, stramineous, with transparent scarious margins and tips; inner bracts similar to outer but with orbicular glabrous opaque white, erect, patent or reflexed scarious laminae 1-1.5 mm long: florets 15-30, all bisexual.

Achenes oblong, 4-angled in cross-section, dark-brown, densely yellow-papillose: pappus bristles 20-40, minutely barbellate, more strongly so towards the apex.

Published illustration: Cochrane et al. (1968) Flowers and plants of Victoria, fig. 278.

Distribution:  Sand dunes along the coast from the Victorian border to Victor Harbor.   Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Feb. — May.

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

Biology: No text

Taxonomic notes: There can be little doubt that J.W.M., Herb. S.A. White (AD 97742090), allegedly collected at Wilgena near Tarcoola bears incorrect locality information.

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