Hyalosperma praecox
(F.Muell.) Paul G.WilsonErect sparsely cottony herbs 10–20 cm high, simple or branched at basal and upper nodes. Leaves semi-terete, 10–15 mm long, usually acuminate but upper leaves with a scarious appendage. Capitula c. hemispherical at anthesis; involucral bracts multiseriate, all white or (rarely) all yellow, acute; outer bracts with lamina c. 5 mm long, inner bracts with lamina c. 7–10 mm long; receptacle conical; florets numerous, bisexual except for few central functionally male ones, corolla 5-lobed. Cypselas obovoid, c. 1 mm long, smooth to warty, glabrous; pappus bristles 4–6, plumose, united at base. Flowers Sep.–Dec.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VVP, VRiv, MuF, Gold, CVU, GGr. Also NSW. In grassland and woodland, mostly north of the Great Dividing Range, but with scattered occurrences on the volcanic plains in the south (e.g. Skipton area).
Short, P.S. (1999). Hyalosperma. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 800–804. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
Spinning