Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Coronidium gunnianum

Flower heads. Photographer Jackie Miles, south of Bombala

Flower heads. Photographer Jackie Miles, south of Bombala

Flowering plants. Photographer Don Wood, Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens north of Moruya

Common name

None

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, grasslands, and near streams. Particularly on the margins of swamps in forest. Coast, ranges, tablelands., and ACT

Notes

Perennial herb to about 0.5 m high, rhizomatous. Stems hairy, not or sparingly branched. Leaves alternating up the stem, 1.5-6.5 cm long and 1-9 mm wide, upper surface almost hairless, lower surface with more or less appressed cottony hairs or almost hairless, tips pointed, slightly thickened but not mucronate; margins curved to rolled down. Length:width ratio greater than 8. Flower heads with many papery pale yellow to straw-coloured or brownish yellow transversely wrinkled 'petals', and yellow centres. Flower heads 10-25 mm in diameter, almost globular to depressed top-shaped, single. Flowers November to June.

At lower elevations than Coronidium monticola.

Coronidium gunnianum is a newly described species. Previous references included it in Helichrysum scorpioides and Helichrysum rutidolepis.

At higher altitudes, intermediate forms between Coronidium gunnianum and Coronidium monticola occur. The population near Oberon does not fit easily into Coronidium gunnianum, Coronidium monticola, or Coronidium scorpioides (personal communication from Jackie Miles).

All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.

Vulnerable Vic.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Coronidium~gunnianum (accessed 7 January, 2021)