Edmondia sesamoides (L.) Hilliard

The salient characters of E. sesamoides are the vegetative stems clad in long (mostly 20-50 mm) ascending leaves and sharply demarcated from the flowering shoots clad in short (c. 4-7 mm) appressed leaves, these leaves normally bract-tipped only immediately below the heads; heads c. 25-27 mm long; involucral bracts pure white, cream, primrose yellow or pink, the outer bracts often partly or wholly pale to dark brown or deep pink, sometimes changing colour with age (e.g. pink when young, pale yellow with age); receptacle with fimbrils much exceeding the ovaries; achenes terete, with conspicuous myxogenic duplex hairs.