''Angianthus phyllocalymmeus'' is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

n plants in the pussy's-toes tribe within the

daisy family Asteraceae () is a large family of flowering plants that consists of over 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. The number of species in Asteraceae is rivaled only by the Orchidaceae, and which is the larger fam ...

, endemic to

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in ...

. The common name is silver candles.Approved Conservation Advice for ''Pleuropappus phyllocalymmeus'' (silver candles)
/ref> As ''Pleuropappus phyllocalymmeus'' it was the only species in the genus ''Pleuropappus''.

References

Gnaphalieae Flora of South Australia Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller {{Gnaphalieae-stub