Английская Википедия:Calocephalus platycephalus

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Calocephalus platycephalus commonly known as western beauty-heads or yellow top,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is an upright to sprawling herb with white hairy foliage and yellow ball-shaped flower heads and is endemic to Australia.

Description

Calocephalus platycephalus is a herb with upright to ascending, whitish woolly to hairy branches and about Шаблон:Cvt high. The leaves are arranged alternately, linear to lance-shaped, mostly Шаблон:Cvt long, Шаблон:Cvt wide, more or less smooth to hairy, apex blunt to occasionally ending in a short triangular point in the upper leaves. The flower heads are yellow, broadly rounded to globe-shaped and 17-22 bracts. Flowering occurs mainly from spring to summer and the fruit is a bristly achene Шаблон:Cvt long.[1][2]

Taxonomy and naming

This species was described in 1867 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Pachysurus platycephalus.[3] In 1867 George Bentham changed the name to Calocephalus platycephalus and the description was published in Flora Australiensis.[4][5]The specific epithet (platycephalus) means "headed".[6]

Distribution and habitat

Western beauty-heads grows in sandy and sometimes semi-salines locations in New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.[1]

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