Citation: Poiret, Encycl. Suppl. 4:620 (1816).

Synonymy: Ptilotus helmsii, Ptilotus incanus, Ptilotus obovatus, Trichinium gnaphalodes, Trichinium incanum

Common name: None

Description:
Shrubs and undershrubs with ascending to erect stems, hirsute with stellate and projecting dendroid hairs like on the foliage; leaves lanceolate-ovate, short-petiolate.

Spikes sessile or shortly pedunculate; bract ovate to broad-lanceolate, hairy, bracteoles somewhat shorter; perianth-segments with finely verticillate dorsal hairs longer in the upper half, overtopping or not the apices c. 3 mm long and denticulately obtuse in the outer segments, inner segments faintly woolly within; filaments often hairy towards the base, staminal cup adnate to the hard perianth tube; ovary mostly glabrous, style eccentric, with some basal hairs.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW. Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

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

Biology: No text

Key to Infraspecific taxa:

1. Stem and leaf hairs very dense, dendroid hairs to 1.8 mm long; spikes 30-flowered and over	var. incanus 13a.
1. Stem and leaf hairs loose, dendroid ones to 2.5 mm long; spikes 5-8-flowered	var. parviflorus 13b.

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