Actinobole uliginosum commonly known as flannel cudweed, camel dung and cotton weed, is a species of dwarf annual herb in the family Asteraceae. It is a small, prostrate annual forb and grows in all mainland states of Australia.
Description Actinobole uliginosum is a small, prostrate, woolly, annual forb with greyish, cottony variable leaves long, wide, tapering at the base on stems up to long. Flowers are borne singly or in a cluster of 1 or 2–12, depressed, wide, flattened, about high, in diameter, yellow without petals, corolla long. Leaves are oblong and surround the flower heads, leaf-like bracts in rows and woolly. Flowering occurs from August to December and the fruit is a cypsela almost obovoid, bristly, yellowish and about long.
Taxonomy This species was described 1852 by Asa Gray who gave it the name Gnaphalodes uliginosa in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany from specimens collected by James Drummond in the Swan River Colony. In 1963 Hansjörg Eichler changed the name to Actinobole uliginosum and the change was published in the journal Taxon.
Habitat/ecology Flannel cudweed is found on sandy, loamy and granitic soils in a variety of habitats throughout inland Australia.
References
External links JSTOR Global Plants: Actinobole uliginosum.