Selago canescens L.f. APNI* Synonyms: Selago thunbergii Choisy APNI*
Description: Perennial much-branched shrub 30–60 cm high; branches finely hairy with whitish retrorse hairs.
Leaves alternate or sparsely clustered, linear, 6–10 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, apex ± acute, mostly glabrous.
Flowers numerous, in small heads arranged in ± dense elongated panicles towards the end of branches; lateral branches with panicles 2–10 cm long and 1–3 cm wide; bracts c. 2 mm long. Calyx 1.5 mm long; lobes about half as long a tube. Corolla 4–6 mm long, whitish and turning blue on drying; tube 2–3 mm long; lobes unequal, nearly as long as the tube.
Fruit ± ovoid, c. 1 mm long.
Flowering: winter.
Distribution and occurrence: Cultivated as an ornamental, sometimes naturalized in grassland; recorded for Berala and Wentworth Falls. Native of S Afr.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *NT, *CT
Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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