Apiaceae
Herbs or small shrubs; epigynous disc usually swelling at the base of the styles on the fruit Apiaceae
Leaves and bracts never pungent pointed
Umbels simple
Flowers numerous, crowded, surrounded by radiating involucral bracts exceeding the flowers, the whole resembling a head. Fruit undivided Actinotus
Involucre 5–8 cm diam., densely white-tomentose, sometimes tipped with green. Erect annual or perennial 30–150 cm high, usually slender when in open forest but stouter and more woody when in exposed situations, covered with a soft dense woolly white or brownish tomentum. Leaves twice 3-partite; segments linear or oblong-linear, almost obtuse, sometimes further divided. Umbels on long peduncles. Flowers on filiform pedicels 3–4 mm long. Calyx lobes very small, linear. Fruit c. 4 mm long, covered with silky hairs. Widespread. DSF and heath. Sandy soils and coastal headlands. Fl. spring–summer. Flannel Flower Actinotus helianthi