Helichrysum leucopsideum
DC. Satin EverlastingErect or ascending perennial herb 15–50 cm high, with woody rhizome or rootstock; stems sparsely to densely woolly, with scattered, inconspicuous, glandular hairs. Leaves linear to narrow-oblong, 1.5–5 cm long, 1–10 mm wide, acute to obtuse, mucronate, upper surface green, scabrous and sparsely cobwebbed to glabrescent, lower surface grey- or white-tomentose to woolly, margins recurved. Capitula terminal, usually solitary or 2 or 3 in leafy corymbs, c. hemispherical, 2.5–3.5 cm diam.; involucre c. 10-seriate; bracts white, often tinged pink in bud, woolly toward base; intermediate bracts lanceolate, 10–20 mm long, acute to acuminate, with herbaceous claws. Florets all bisexual. Cypselas 2–3 mm long, 4-angled, glabrous, brown; pappus bristles 80–100, c. free, 6–10 mm long, white, falling in groups. Flowers spring and summer.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, RobP, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also WA, SA, NSW, ACT, Tas. Widespread and often locally common throughout much of the state in a variety of habitats.
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Asteraceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 652–666. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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