Rhodanthe humboldtiana
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| Golden cluster everlasting | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Rhodanthe |
| Species: | R. humboldtiana |
| Binomial name | |
| Rhodanthe humboldtiana | |
Rhodanthe humboltiana, commonly known as the golden cluster everlasting,[2] is a flowering annual in the family Asteraceae. It is a small, upright, branching plant with yellow flowers, and is endemic to Western Australia.
Rhodanthe humboldtiana 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. The 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]