Ozothamnus vagans (C.T.White) Anderb. APNI* Synonyms: Helichrysum vagans C.T.White APNI*
Description: Straggling, spindly shrub to 2 m high, branches prominently ridged, glabrous or with loose webby hairs on the young growth.
Leaves lanceolate, usually 15–50 mm long and 3–5 mm wide, rarely to 100 mm long and 15 mm wide, margins slightly recurved; lamina discolorous and with 3 longitudinal veins prominent on both surface, upper surface dark green with glandular hairs or ± glabrous, lower surface pale green with a dense short tomentum; petiole 1–1.5 mm long.
Heads in small compact terminal corymbose panicles; heads campanulate, 2–3 mm long, 2–3 mm diam.; involucral bracts pale golden, stiff, ovate, spreading, webby at the base on lower surface. Florets 12–14, with 6 outer florets filiform, female. Pappus bristles not or scarcely clavate apically.
Flowering: spring–autumn.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in and around rainforest; in the McPherson Ra. and on Mt Warning, rare.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Endangered; Commonwealth EPBC: Vulnerable
Text by J. Everett
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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