Common name: Pale Immortelle
Waitzia citrina (Benth.) Steetz APNI*
Description: Erect or ascending mostly glabrous annual to 35 cm high.
Leaves narrow-oblong to narrow-oblanceolate, 1–6 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, slightly stem-clasping, glabrous or sparsely pubescent.
Heads hemispherical, to 20 mm diam., 3–15 in dense corymbs, sessile or on woolly scapes; involucral bracts with yellow, entire or finely toothed laminas, and short densely woolly claws, reflexed after maturity.
Achenes c. 1.5 mm long, with a 0.5–1.5 mm long pallid beak; pappus 4–6 mm long, yellow, plumose especially at the base, barbate upwards.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in open scrub communities on sandy soils in wet periods; chiefly in Louth district.
NSW subdivisions: NWP
Other Australian states: W.A. S.A. N.T.
Text by J. Everett
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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