Ozothamnus pholidotus
F.Muell. Scaly EverlastingErect shrub to 2 m high; branchlets glabrous, somewhat viscid. Leaves erect, sessile, appressed to stem, narrow triangular, 1.5–4 mm long, 0.5–1.5 mm wide, surfaces concolorous, glabrous, bright green, apex acute. Inflorescences hemispherical, 1–4 cm diam. Capitula 20–200, white to pale yellow, cylindric, 3.5–4.5 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide; involucral bracts 12–17, innermost spathulate, with lamina semicircular, to c. 1 mm long, suberect, flat, white, margin entire; receptacle bracts and female florets absent; hermaphrodite florets 4–6. Cypsela cylindric, 1–1.5 mm long, densely papillose; pappus absent Flowers Nov.–Feb.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GGr, DunT. Also WA, SA. Scattered in mallee heath or mallee woodlands, usually on sandy soils, chiefly in the Big and Little Deserts, but with an outlying occurrence in the Victoria Range of the Grampians.
Previously placed in Haeckeria but more closely related to the Tasmanian species Ozothamnus lycopodioides Hook. f. which also has concolorous leaves and female florets lacking a pappus.
Puttock, C.F. (1999). Ozothamnus. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 732–742. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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