Common name: Tangled Silver-tails
Ptilotus indivisus Benl APNI* 
Description: Straggling perennial with intertwined branches to 40 cm high.
Leaves oblanceolate, 1.5–2.5 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, entire, apex acute, gradually tapering to the base.
Inflorescence cylindrical, 2.5 cm long and 1.5 cm diam., terminal, whitish grey with faint purplish tinge. Bracts hairy, ovate, acute. Perianth segments acute, 10–12 mm long, with purplish tinge; outer surface hairy with glabrous apex; inner surface woolly on lower third, glabrous above. Stamens 5. Ovary glabrous, shortly stalked.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows on red clay soils in partly cleared mallee country.
NSW subdivisions: CWS, SWS, SWP
Text by S. W. L. Jacobs & L. Lapinpuro
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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