Leucochrysum molle
(A.Cunn. ex DC.) Paul G.WilsonAnnual herb to c. 30 cm tall. Leaves linear or oblanceolate, 2–7 cm long, 2–6 mm wide, grey-cottony. Capitula 2–3 cm diam., hemispherical, bracts reflexed in fruit. Outer involucral bracts sessile, broadly ovate, hyaline to pale brown; intermediate bracts with glandular-hairy claws, laminae triangular, ovate or subcircular, 3–10 mm long, yellow, base cottony; inner bracts with a much shorter lamina and a scariously-winged claw. Cypselas c. obovoid, c. 3 mm long, obscurely angled, brown, often warty; pappus bristles 10–20.
MuM, VRiv, MuF, GGr, HSF. Also SA, Qld, NSW. Apparently confined to Mildura and Swan Hill (both pre-1900 collections), and Serpentine near Inglewood (1959), but possibly more widespread on the northern plains, some non-vouchered records possibly having been referred to the very similar L. albicans subsp. albicans var. albicans. The 2 taxa are difficult to circumscribe (Wilson 1960).
Short, P.S. (1999). Leucochrysum. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 789–792. Inkata Press, Melbourne.