Coronidium kaputaricum

Coronidium kaputaricum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Coronidium
Species:
C. kaputaricum
Binomial name
Coronidium kaputaricum

Coronidium kaputaricum is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to New South Wales, Australia. It is a low-lying perennial plant densely covered with woolly hairs, elliptic leaves, and heads of white flowers.

Description

Coronidium kaputaricum is a low-lying perennial plant densely covered with woolly hairs. Its leaves are congested, elliptic, mostly 40โ€“90 mm (1.6โ€“3.5 in) long, with a petiole up to half the length of the leaf. The flowers are borne in a more or less spherical head 35 mm (1.4 in) in diameter with white, glossy, congested, very narrowly oblong involucral bracts up to 12 mm (0.47 in) long, with a few woolly hairs near the base. The cypselas are fawn-coloured, about 3 mm (0.12 in) long and the pappus has thread-like bristles.[2][3]

Taxonomy

Coronidium kaputaricum was first described in 2008 by Paul Graham Wilson in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected near "The Governor" in Mount Kaputar National Park by Ian Telford in 1995.[2][4] The specific epithet (kaputaricum) refers to the type locality.[2]

Distribution and habitat

This species of everlasting is only known from the Nandewar Range on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales where it grows in crevices in basaltic cliff faces.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Coronidium kaputaricum". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 13 March 2026.
  2. ^ a b c d Wilson, Paul G. (2008). "Coronidium, a new Australian genus in the Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae)". Nuytsia. 18: 315โ€“316. Retrieved 13 March 2026.
  3. ^ Herscovitch, Clare. "Coronidium kaputaricum". Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 13 March 2026.
  4. ^ "Coronidium kaputaricum". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 13 March 2026.