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Ptilotus chrysocomus is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to inland Western Australia. It is a compact, perennial shrub with erect, glabrous stems, narrowly lance-shaped stem leaves with the narrower end towards the base, yellow to straw-coloured, oval to spherical spikes of flowers with five stamens.
This species of Ptilotus grows in brown, sandy clays on the bases of breakaways and on rocky scree slopes in the Gascoyne, Little Sandy Desert and Murchison bioregions of inland Western Australia.
Ptilotus actinocladus · Ptilotus aervoides · Ptilotus albidus · Ptilotus alexandri · Ptilotus andersonii · Ptilotus angustifolius · Leafless Mulla Mulla · Ptilotus appendiculatus · Ptilotus aristatus · Ptilotus arthrolasius · Ptilotus astrolasius · Ptilotus auriculifolius
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ptilotus chrysocomus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
