Ascending perennial, 5–70 cm high; branches hairy. Leaves opposite, or the uppermost ones alternate, obovate to oblanceolate or c. linear, 1–5 cm long, 1–4.5 mm wide, tomentose, the midrib and often two lateral veins prominent, uppermost leaves often with a hyaline apex. Compound heads globose to broadly ellipsoid or c. obloid, 0.6–1.5 cm long, with 20–200 capitula; general involucre absent. Capitular bracts 9–16, flat to conduplicate, 1.5–3.3 mm long, the outermost smallest, all mainly hyaline but the uppermost part white, glabrous or with long hairs extending from the margins and near apex of midrib; florets 2–3 per capitulum. Cypselas subobconical; pappus bristles 6–11, plumose in the upper part. Flowers mainly Nov.–Mar.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, HSF, OtR. Also ?WA, SA, Tas. Commonly in grassy, low-lying areas subject to inundation, tolerating a degree of salinity. .
Source:
Short, P.S. (1999). Calocephalus. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 809–811. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
