Coronidium waddelliae

Erect annual to c. 60 cm high; stems multistemmed, scabrous with short septate and sessile glandular hairs. Leaves sessile, erect, c. linear, to 5 cm long, 1–3(–4) mm wide, apex acuminate, base not stem-clasping; surfaces glandular-hairy, white-woolly below; margins slightly recurved. Capitula solitary, hemispherical, to 4.5 cm diam., closely subtended by several leafy linear bracts; involucre 7–9-seriate; outer bracts white or pink in bud or towards apex; intermediate bracts narrow-elliptic, 10–17 mm long, short-clawed, opaque, white, often tinged pink in bud. Florets all bisexual. Cypselas c. 2 mm long, 4-angled, glabrous, pitted, pale brown; pappus bristles 20–25, slightly connate, 4–6 mm long, white. Flowers Nov.–Mar.