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