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Bedfordia arborescens Hochr.
Family Asteraceae
Common name: Blanket Leaf, Flannel Leaf, Blanket Bush

Bedfordia arborescens Hochr. APNI*

Description: Shrub or small tree up to 5 m, young stems white-tomentose.

Leaves oblong to narrow-elliptic or lanceolate, mostly 10–20 cm long, 20–40 mm wide, apex rounded to acute, margins ± entire to crenate, upper surface glabrous and shining with main veins impressed, lower surface densely white-tomentose with lateral veins obscure; petiole 10–20 mm long, tomentose.

Panicles in upper axils or sometimes ramiflorus; heads c. 3 mm diam.; involucral bracts 6–9, 5–6 mm long. Florets orange.

Achenes ± compressed, c. 3 mm long; pappus 4–6 mm long.


Herbarium
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Flowering: spring.

Distribution and occurrence: Grows on margins of rainforest and in wet sclerophyll forest on the ranges: south from near Clyde Mtn.
NSW subdivisions: SC, ST
Other Australian states: Vic. Tas.
AVH map***

Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


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***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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