Verbascum sinuatum L. APNI* 
Description: Erect, mostly unbranched biennial 0.5–1 m high, shortly grey- to yellow-tomentose with stellate hairs, sometimes floccose, inflorescence glandular, sparser below.
Lower leaves pandurate to spathulate, lamina 15–35 cm long, 6–15 cm wide, base tapering into petiole, margins sinuately lobed with rounded lobes and often ± undulate, shortly petiolate; stem leaves smaller, ± regularly toothed, stem-clasping.
Inflorescence 30–60 cm long, freely branched, the branch-subtending bract entire and stem-clasping, lax, 1–5 flowers at each node; bracts 3–8 mm; longer pedicels 2–5 mm. Calyx 2–4 mm long. Corolla 1.5–3 cm diam., yellow. Stamens 5; anthers reniform; hairs on filaments violet.
Capsule subglobose, 2.5–4 mm long, stellate-hairy.
Flowering: recorded March–April
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in disturbed sites and in woodland; in Mudgee-Gulgong district. Native of W Eur.
NSW subdivisions: *CWS
Text by W. R. Barker & G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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