''Ozothamnus thyrsoideus'', commonly known as sticky everlasting, is a flowering shrub, endemic to south-eastern

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. It grows to between 0.5 and 2 metres in height. Leaves are 15 to 30 mm long and 1.5 to 2 mm wide. Flowerheads appear in terminal corymbs in the summer. The species was formally described in 1838 by Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, based on plant material collected in

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. It occurs in subalpine areas of

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, the

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, Victoria and Tasmania.

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