Coronidium lindsayanum
| Coronidium lindsayanum | |
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| In the Australian National Botanic Gardens | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Coronidium |
| Species: | C. lindsayanum |
| Binomial name | |
| Coronidium lindsayanum | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Coronidium lindsayanum is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to an area near the border between New South Wales and Queensland, Australia. It is a low, compact shrub with crowded, narrowly elliptic to elliptic leaves, heads of flowers with white or pale pink bracts, and cypselas with thread-like pappus bristles.
Description
Coronidium lindsayanum is a low, compact shrub with branches densely covered with woolly hairs. The leaves are crowded, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 50 mm (2.0 in) long on a short petiole, and usually with the edges turned down. The upper surface of the leaves is glabrous and glossy, the lower surface is covered with felty hairs. The heads are hemispherical, more or less sessile, 40 mm (1.6 in) in diameter and arranged singly with white or pale pink very narrowly oblong involucral bracts covered with woolly hairs at the base. The cypselas are pale brown and crusty, about 2.2 mm (0.087 in) long and the pappus has thread-like bristles joined at the base.[2][3]
Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1930 by Karel Domin who gave it the name Helichrysum lindsayanum in Bibliotheca Botanica from specimens collected "on the rocks, 5,000 ft (1,500 m)" in 1829 by Charles Fraser.[4] In 2008, Paul Graham Wilson transferred the species to Coronidium as C. lindsayanum. The specific epithet (lindsayanum) refers to Mount Lindesay, now known as Mount Barney .[2]
Distribution and habitat
This species of Coronidium grows in the crevices of rocky outcrops in the McPherson Range near the border of New South Wales and Queensland.[2]
Conservation status
Coronidium lindsayanum is listed as "least concern" under the Queensland Nature Conservation Act 1992.[5]
References
- 1 2 "Coronidium lindsayanum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 4 April 2026.
- 1 2 3 Wilson, Paul G. (2008). "Coronidium, a new Australian genus in the Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae)". Nuytsia. 18: 323, 325. Retrieved 5 April 2026.
- ↑ "Coronidium lindsayanum". Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 5 April 2026.
- ↑ "Helichrysum lindsayanum". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 4 April 2026.
- ↑ "Taxon - Coronidium lindsayanum". Queensland Government WildNet. Retrieved 5 April 2026.