Family: Asteraceae
Helichrysum semipapposum
Citation:
Sect. Oxylepis Benth. (1867) FI. Aust. 3:614.
Synonymy: Gnaphalium semipapposum Labill., Nov. Holl. Pl. Sp. 2:42 (1806); H. semipapposum (Labill.) DC. var. brevifolium (Sonder)Maiden & Betche, Census N.S.W. Pl. 202 (1916); H. squarrulosum DC. var. brevifolium Sonder, Linnaea 25:515 (1852).
Common name: Clustered everlasting, yellow buttons.
Description:
Perennial herbs or undershrubs; leaves all alternate.
Capitula homogamous or heterogamous, when a few of the outer florets are female; involucre broadly campanulate, of dull-white, stramineous or golden-yellow scarious bracts; inner bracts with erect inconspicuous laminae; innermost bracts longest; florets equalling the involucre or exceeding and overhanging it; style branches truncate, papillose.
achenes glabrous or papillose.
Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 700.
Distribution:
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In a wide variety of situations, but nearly always in ranges of hills or mountains or on isolated rocky rises.
All States.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: most of the year but mainly Oct. — Dec.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Taxonomic notes:
In many features close to some species of Leptorhynchos and possibly best included in that genus.
Author:
Not yet available
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