Helichrysum calvertianum

Helichrysum calvertianum is a small, many branched subshrub to high with smooth stems and occasional woolly, small glandular hairs. The green crowded leaves are sticky, linear, long, wide, margins rolled under concealing the lower surface. The papery white, daisy-like flowers are borne singly at the end of wiry branches, long and in diameter with yellow centres. The bracts are scaly, brownish, somewhat hairy near the base, intermediate bracts longer with pale, papery edges, sometimes tinted pink near the apex, outer bracts golden and translucent, innermost bracts narrow with small, papery white edges. Flowering occurs from January to August and the fruit are a dry, one-seeded, slightly glandular, oblong to needle-shaped, bristly and almost feathery at the tip. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Helichrysum calvertianum was first formally described 1877 by Ferdinand von Mueller as Helipterum calvertianum and the description was published in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae. In 1882 Mueller changed the name to Helichrysum calvertianum. The specific epithet (calvertianum) is in honour of "Mrs Calvert" (nee Louisa Atkinson), a plant collector for Mueller. ==Distribution and habitat==

This species grows mostly on Hawkesbury sandstone in heavier, moist soils, on or near rock platforms and in dry sclerophyll forest. It is restricted to the Southern Highlands between Joadja, Belanglo, Fitzroy Falls and Mount Gibraltar. ==Conservation status==

Helichrysum calvertianum is classified as a "vulnerable species" in New South Wales. ==References==