grey ray flower

Cyphanthera albicans is an upright shrub to 3 m (9.8 ft) high, greyish, branches covered densely in short, matted hairs or soft, short hairs. Older leaves are oval to elliptic or more or less egg-shaped, 5–45 mm (0.20–1.77 in) long, 1.5–7 mm (0.059–0.276 in) wide, lamina covered densely in short matted hairs, younger leaves up to 13 cm (5.1 in) long and 4 cm (1.6 in) wide. The corolla is cream or light yellow with purple markings, 6–22 mm (0.24–0.87 in) long, smooth or with soft hairs, lobes oval to squared to nearly linear and 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) long. Flowering occurs from spring to early summer and the fruit a capsule 2.5 mm (0.098 in) long.

Cyphanthera albicans subsp. albicans grows in forest or shrubland in New South Wales from near Rylstone to the Shoalhaven River and also occurs in Queensland and the far north-east of Victoria. Subspecies notabilis is restricted to the Warrumbungles and subsp. tomentosa to western New South Wales.

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