Coronidium adenophorum

Erect annual or biennial to c. 50 cm high; stems usually unbranched below, scabrous with short septate and sessile glandular hairs. Leaves sessile, erect, c. linear, to 6 cm long, 1–6 mm wide, apex acuminate, base stem-clasping; surfaces glandular-hairy, scabrous above; margins 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 the apex; intermediate bracts narrow-elliptic, 14–20 mm long, short-clawed, opaque, white, often tinged pink in bud. Florets all bisexual. Cypselas c. 1.5 mm long, 4-angled, glabrous, pitted, brown; pappus bristles 20–25, slightly connate, 4–6 mm long, white. Flowers Oct.–Mar.