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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Asteraceae
Helichrysum semifertile

Citation: Sect. Xerochlaena Benth. (1867) Fl.Aust. 3:613.

Synonymy: Pteropogon ramosissimus F. Muell., Linnaea 25:412 (1853), non H. ramosissimum Hook.

Common name: Dainty everlasting.

Description:
Annual or perennial herbs; leaves all alternate.

Capitula several in irregular compound leafy corymbs, with sparsely woolly peduncles 0.5-2 cm long, usually with a distal scale or 2, broadly cylindrical-campanulate, 7-10 mm long and 4-7 mm broad (excluding the laminae); involucral bracts 4- or 5-seriate, the inner ones longest; inner bracts usually 6 or 7, with a golden-brown hyaline claw with a broad opaque midrib and with a spreading broadly ovate acute opaque white or yellow lamina 2.5-5 mm long; florets 14-24 of which up to half (the inner ones) are sterile.

Achenes glabrous or scabrous-papillose.

Distribution:  On open gibber plains and tablelands or in rocky arid hills; usually in clay-loam soils.

  N.T.; Qld; N.S.W.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: June — Oct.


SA Distribution Map based
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specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Resembles Helipterum troedellii but that species has truncate style branches, silky achenes and plumose pappus bristles.

Taxonomic notes: Species 5-12.

Author: Not yet available


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