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Family: Amaranthaceae
Ptilotus helipteroides

Citation: F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt.Aust. 6:231 (1868).

Synonymy: -Trichinium helipteroides F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 3:122 (1862); T. brachytrichum F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Aust. 3:161 (1863). , Ptilotus helipteroides

Common name: Hairy mulla mulla, woolly tails.

Description:
Annual herbs with usually tufted stems often arcuately ascending and sometimes subfastigiately branched, forming clumps of up to 1.5 m diam.; leaves narrow, linear-lanceolate, mid-green with copious silver-grey hairs as on the shoots especially when young.

Spikes pedunculate, iridescent, lilac-purple to mauve and pinkish-red; bract and shorter bracteoles silvery, shining; perianth-segments with a finally green villous median area reddish bordered, forming a pseudotube above a short basal disk, outer perianth-segments with an obtuse erose-denticulate apex, inner segments with a sparse wool inside at the base; stamens all fertile, sometimes 1 rarely 2 sterile; ciliate or fringed pseudostaminodes on a low staminal ring, mostly 1 or 2 irregularly adnate to dilated filaments (cf. Benl (1959) Muelleria 1:106); ovary subsessile, densely hirsute in the upper half, style central.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, EA.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: No flowering time is available


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