Rhodanthe floribunda
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| Common white sunray | |
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| growing near Mount Oxley, Australia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Rhodanthe |
| Species: | R. floribunda |
| Binomial name | |
| Rhodanthe floribunda | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Helipterum floribundum DC. | |
Rhodanthe floribunda, commonly known as common white sunray,[2] is a flowering, herbaceous plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a small, upright or decumbent plant with white flowers, yellow florets and is endemic to Australia.
Rhodanthe floribunda is an upright or ascending, bushy annual to 30 cm (12 in) high with woolly or almost smooth stems arising from the base. The leaves are sessile, narrow, linear, greyish-green, 10–20 mm (0.39–0.79 in) long, 0.5–2 mm (0.020–0.079 in) wide and the apex rounded. The flower heads are 1–2 cm (0.39–0.79 in) in diameter, borne singly at the end of leafy branchlets. The bracts are arranged in several rows, white, dry, pointed, mostly upright or the inner bracts spreading, corolla about 5 mm (0.20 in) long, toothed and the 20-50 florets yellow. Flowering occurs from August to January but mostly in spring and the fruit is a rounded achene about 3 mm (0.12 in) long and covered with soft, silky, weak hairs.[2][3][4]