Actinotus minor, commonly known as the lesser flannel flower,[1] is species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae and is endemic to New South Wales. It is a small, sprawling plant with grey-green leaves and white flowers.
Actinotus minor is a small, spreading, perennial herb, high with long, thin stems. The leaves are small and pointed, divided into 3 lobed segments, long, more or less smooth above, hairy and white on the under surface. The leaf stems are slender and up to long. The flower is a cream-white coloured umbel, in diameter. The bracts are lance-shaped, sometimes dark-tipped, long and wide, pointed and sparsely hairy on the lower surface. Flowering can occur at any time of the year, the fruit is oval-shaped, long and wide.[1]
Actinotus minor was first formally described in 1830 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle and the description was published in Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.[2] [3] The specific epithet (minor) means "smaller".[4]
Lesser flannel flower grows in heath, open dry sclerophyll forests on sandy soils in New South Wales from Ourimbah, south to Milton and Robertson.[1] [5]