Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Denise Grieg, W of Quambone, NSW

Common Name

Woolly Buttons

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Perennial forb or shrub to 60cm tall, usually with a woody base. Leaves alternating up the stems, leaf bases continuing down the stems. Leaves 1-1.5cm long, 1-1.5mm wide, linear to flat, densely hairy, with pointed tips. Flower heads yellow, with 0 petals, hemispherical, borne singly at the ends of the stems.

Differs from Leiocarpa websteri in that the bracts on the flower heads below the florets are woolly, and its leaves are narrower. It intergrades with Leiocarpa websteri in NSW.

Description and photo (as Leptorhynchos panaetioides) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales pages 703-704

PlantNET description with line drawings and photos: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leiocarpa~panaetioides

Key to the species of Leiocarpa and discussion of the differences between the species in Wilson, P.G. (2001) Leiocarpa, a new Australian genus of the Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae. Nuytsia 13(3): pages 598-599