Argentipallium obtusifolium, commonly known as blunt everlasting, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a small, multi-stemmed perennial with white flowers, dark green leaves and is endemic to Australia.
Argentipallium obtusifolium is a small, multi-stemmed-stemmed perennial to high. The branches are white-silvery, more or less sticky from glandular, matted, woolly hairs and the leaves narrow oblanceolate, long, wide, upper surface smooth, lower surface woolly, silvery-white and the margins recurved. The flowers are borne singly at the end of upright branchlets, usually long and in diameter at maturity. The outer bracts semi-transparent, mostly sticky and woolly, inner bracts edges white, dry and mostly long. Flowering occurs mainly in winter to spring and the fruit is an oblong-shaped, brown achene.[1] [2]
This species was first described in 1853 by Ferdinand von Mueller and Otto Wilhelm Sonder and given the name Helichrysum obtusifolium.[3] In 1993 Paul Graham Wilson changed the name to Argentipallium obtusifolium and the description was published in the journal Nuytsia.[4] [5]
Blunt everlasting grows on deep sandy soils in mallee and coastal heath in Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia.[1]