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Family: Asteraceae
Calocephalus lacteus

Citation: Less., Syn.gen. Comp. 271 (1832).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Milky beauty-heads.

Description:
Perennial herbs, major axes ascending, c. 5-70 cm long, hairy; leaves usually opposite but sometimes the uppermost ones alternate, all leaves obovate to oblanceolate or sometimes, narrowly elliptic or linear, 1-5 cm long, 0.1-0.45 cm wide, tomentose, often sheathing at the base, rounded at the apex, the midrib and often 2 lateral veins prominent, the uppermost leaves often with a small hyaline appendage at the apex.

Compound heads spheroid to broadly ellipsoid or cylindrical or ovoid, 0.6-1.5 cm long, 0.6-0.9 cm wide; general involucre absent; general receptacle cylindrical to narrowly oblong; capitula c. 20-200 per compound head; capitular bracts 9-16, c. 3-seriate with the outermost bracts the smallest, all obovate to oblanceolate, flat to concave, 1.5-3.3 mm long, 0.6-1.2 mm wide, mainly hyaline but the uppermost portion white, with an opaque green or brown midrib which extends about half the length of the bract, glabrous or with long hairs extending from the hyaline margins and near the apex of the midrib: florets, 2 or 3 per capitulum, corolla tube 1.6-2 mm long.

Achenes 1-1.1 mm long, c. 0.4 mm diam., brown, papillose; pappus of 6-11 multiseriate bristles which are plumose in the upper part and united at the base into a small ring.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SE.   Vic.; Tas.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Sept. — Feb.


SA Distribution Map based
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specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia

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