Perennial herb mostly 10–40 cm high; stems numerous, usually unbranched, densely white-woolly. Leaves linear, mostly 5–30 mm long and 0.5–2.5 mm wide, acute, base slightly broadened, margins recurved to revolute, upper surface ultimately green and glabrescent, lower surface densely white-woolly. Capitula solitary, terminal, broad-campanulate, mostly 2–3 cm diam.; involucre 10–12-seriate, 10–15 mm long; outer bracts brownish, subsessile; intermediate bracts longest, erect, exceeding florets by 5–9 mm, white, sometimes tinged brown, long-clawed. Florets bisexual. Cypselas 0.5–1.3 mm long; pappus 2–3 mm long, white. Flowers mostly spring and summer.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, GipP, OtP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, VAlp. Also SA, NSW, Tas. (Bass Strait islands). Widespread in lowland heaths and sclerophyll forests, usually on sandy soils.
Source:
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.
