Citation: R. Br. in Sturt, Exped. Centr. Aust., Bot. App. 88 (1849) var. latifolius. Common_name: Tangled mulla mulla, white fox tail.

Synonymy: Trichinium latifolium R. Br. ex Ewart & O.B. Davies, Fl. North. Terr. 100 (1917). , Ptilotus latifolius

Common name: None

Description:
Annual rarely bush-like perennial, intricately branched, to 0.8 rarely 1 m high and 1.3 m across, young shoots and leaves at first with a fluffy pubescence of crisp hairs, branchlets only remaining hairy; leaves broad-obovate to spathulate, to 8 x 2.5 cm, with a long petiole.

Spikes numerous, pale-pink, soon fading to silvery-white, roundish, 1-2 x 1-1.4 cm, with 10-20 flowers, often supported by 1 or 2 smaller leaves; bract and bracteoles thin and very broad, bracteoles (c. 6 x 5 mm) longer than the bract and the perianth, which is c. 4.5 mm long, pink-tipped when fresh; perianth-segments free down to an open disk, bipartite with a densely villous claw and a subglabrous pink limb above, dorsal pubescence hardly exceeding the apices, all glabrous inside; stamens all perfect, cupule short with minute forked membranous teeth; ovary sessile, glabrous, style central.

	Ptilotus latifolius twig and staminal cup.
Image source: fig 185b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, LE, GT.   All mainland States except Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: have been recorded from all time of the year, especially July — Oct.

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

Biology: No text

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