Calocephalus citreus
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| Lemon beauty-heads | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Calocephalus |
| Species: | C. citreus |
| Binomial name | |
| Calocephalus citreus | |
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Calocephalus citreus, commonly known as lemon beauty-heads,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It has yellow cylindrical shaped flowers and grey stems and grows in the eastern states of Australia
Calocephalus citreus is a perennial herb with upright, slender, light grey, fuzzy, slightly angular stems growing to about 15–60 cm (5.9–23.6 in) high. The leaves are arranged usually opposite, linear to lance-shaped, mostly 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) long, 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079 in) wide and covered with short, matted, dense hairs and prominent veins. The heads are solitary, oblong to globose shaped, about 0.4–2 cm (0.16–0.79 in) long, lemon-coloured in bud, bright yellow in flower. The 8-11 bracts are flat, conduplicate, 1.9–3.4 mm (0.075–0.134 in) long with 2-3 florets per head. Flowering occurs from September to March and the fruit is a cypsela 0.7–0.85 mm (0.028–0.033 in) long, brown, and the upper surface covered in fine, feathery bristles.[2][3]