Sometimes known just as Green Pussytails, or Featherheads, this member of the Genus Ptilotus has a large flower head (spike) with a yellow-greenish tinge.

The Large Green Pussytail are found growing in a variety of habitats including on rocky slopes, gravelly, clayey or stony plains, along roadsides and grey-brown swampy soils. The leaves are linear to narrowly lanceolate.

The Mulla Mullas are a group of flowering plants also sometimes called Pussytails, due to their distinctive shaped flower heads.