Flower heads. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, west of Wanaaring, NSW

Flower heads and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, west of Wanaaring, NSW

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, west of Wanaaring, NSW

Plants. Photo: melburnian, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, Vic

Common Name

Grey Wrinklewort

Family

Asteraceae

Notes

Perennial forb, woody at the base, to 50cm tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, linear to flat, 2-14cm long, 1.5-20mm wide, more or less hairy, margins flat or sometimes curved down, with pointed tips. Flowers yellow, with 0 petals. Flower heads broadly hemispherical, borne singly or in open groups at the ends of the stems. Presumed extinct Vic.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 702

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