Common Name

Orange Sunray

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Annual forb to 16cm tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.3-1.8cm long, less than 1mm wide, flattened cylindrical, sparsely hairy to hairless, with blunt or pointed tips.  Flowers orange to yellow, with many papery 'petals'.  Flower heads cup-shaped or hemispherical, borne singly at the ends of the stems.

Description and photo (as Helipterum jessenii) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 695.

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Hyalosperma~semisterile

Photo of flowering plants. Australian Plant Image Index. Photographer Dave Mallinson, Binya State Forest near Griffith, NSW