Common name: Fruit-salad Plant, Applebush
Pterocaulon sphacelatum (Labill.) F.Muell. APNI* 
Description: Erect aromatic herb, 0.2–1.2 m high, woolly to tomentose, hairs brownish.
Leaves oblanceolate to oblong, obtuse or occasionally acute, 1–5 cm long, 0.3–1.5 cm wide, crenate or entire.
Compound heads sessile or pedunculate, ovoid to globose, solitary, 0.8–2 cm long, 10–20 mm diam. Outer bracts spathulate, inner bracts linear-lanceolate, whitish to pink. Florets pink to purple. Achenes 0.7–0.9 mm long; pappus c. 3 mm long.
Distribution and occurrence:
NSW subdivisions: NWP, NFWP, SFWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. S.A. N.T.
Text by M. F. Porteners
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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