Xerochrysum berarngutta T.L.Collins & I.Telford APNI* Description: Decumbent to erect perennial herb. Stems with glands, villous and septate hairs.
Basal rosette absent at flowering. Basal leaves spathulate, base amplexicaule. Cauline leaves oblanceolate to obovate, mm long x mm wide, leaf base attenuate, apex apiculate and mucronate, margins villous hairy with septate hairs; under leaf surface densely shortly hairy with septate hairs and sessile glands, midrib long hairy with septate hairs; upper leaf surface hairy to densely shortly hairy with septate hairs and sessile glands.
Leafy floral bracts below involucre 10–20 mm long, margins villous. Flower heads terminal, in panicles or solitary, 40–60 mm diameter. Outer involucre bracts broad ovate, brown to straw-yellow, apex apiculate; middle involucre bracts ovate to lanceolate, orange or yellow, apex apiculate to cuspidate.
Achenes oblong, c 2.7 mm long, 0.9 mm wide; squarish to circular in cross-section. Pappus deciduous, c. 7 mm long.
Flowering: Flowers February to April.
Distribution and occurrence: Restricted to the New England National Park, east of Armidale. Open shrubland of Eucalyptus pauciflora, Acacia melanoxylon and Banksia integrifolia. Restricted to rocky steep slopes and cliffs.
NSW subdivisions: NT
Similar to Xerochrysum bracteatum but differs by the under leaf surface with both glandular and septate hairs (only sessile glands in X. bracteatum), the leafy floral bracts being 10-20 mm long (8-10 mm long in X. bracteatum , and the cuspidate to apiculate middle involucre bracts (obtuse in X. bracteatum.
Text by Modified by Peter Jobson Apr 2025.
Taxon concept: T.L. Collins et al. (2022) There's gold in them thar hills! Morphology and molecules delimit species in Xerochrysum (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) and reveal new taxa. Aust. Syst. Bot. 35: 120-185.
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