Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
Phacellothrix cladochaeta (F.Muell.) F.Muell.
Family
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1881) Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 11(93): 49.
Stem
Annual decumbent to erect herb. Stems 20-36 cm tall, loosely woolly.
Leaves
Leaves sessile, oblong to narrowly-lanceolate, abaxial leaf surface covered in long white woolly hairs, adaxial surface sparsely hairy, 3-6 x 0.4-0.6 cm.
Flowers
Inflorescence terminal, 5-18 cm long, axis woolly. Involucral bracts hayline with dark basal medial line, 4-6 mm long. Corolla yellow.
Fruit
Pappus white, in a single whorl 1.5-2 mm long; achene brown, oblong-cylindrical. Seed covered in white pearl-like sessile glands.
Seedlings
Features not available.
Distribution and Ecology
Synonyms
Helichrysum cladochaetum F.Muell., Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae 5(32): 199(1865), Type: In proximitate promontorii Cape York. Daemel.
RFK Code
4186
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