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Ptilotus macrocephalus
Also called Green Mulla Mulla, Green Pussy Tails
Ptilotus macrocephalus, commonly known as green pussytails or featherheads, is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a glabrous or slightly hairy perennial herb, with a woody taproot, linear to narrowly lance-shaped leaves and dense oblong to cylindrical spikes of yellowish green or silvery white flowers.
Green pussytails grows in grassland, grassy woodland and heath. While once considered distributed throughout most of the Australian mainland, current research limits the distribution of P. macrocephalus to south-eastern Australia, mostly in south-eastern South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. A study by Hammer et al. (2019) determined that specimens previously identified as P. macrocephalus are morphologically and ecologically distinct species, the now named Ptilotus xerophilus T.Hammer & R.W.Davis (arid central and western Australia) and Ptilotus psilorhachis T.Hammer & R.W.Davis (eastern Queensland).
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 macrocephalus 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.
