Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ozothamnus adnatus
Common name
Winged everlasting
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest and woodland. Coast and ranges north of Mittagong. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Heathlike shrub to 2 m high. Branches covered in dirty white woolly hairs. Leaves fused to the stem for half their length, forming 2 prominent green hairless ridges along the stems. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.1–0.8 cm long (although the free part only up to 0.4 cm long), to 1 mm wide, sticky, rough to hairless, upper surface green, lower surface with dirty white woolly hairs, margins rolled down and obscuring lower surface in the half that is free from the stem, tips blunt. Flower heads 3–4 mm long, 2.5–4 mm in diameter, globular, becoming bell-shaped or hemispherical. Florets 10–48 per flower head, dull yellow. 24–55 bracts appressed to the flower heads, brownish translucent in the lower half, translucent or white-opaque in the upper half. Flower heads in clusters of 20–90 at the tops of the stems. Flowering: spring-summer.
Vulnerable Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ozothamnus~adnatus (accessed 29 January, 2021)
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