Coronidium boormanii
Coronidium boormanii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a woody herb with densely hairy stems, elliptic to narrowly elliptic leaves and heads of white flowers.
Description
Coronidium boormanii is a woody herb that typically grows to a height of and has stems densely covered with short glandular hairs. Its leaves are sessile, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, long, wide with a stem-clasping base and densely covered with glandular hairs. The flowers are borne in a single or three to seven hemispherical heads in diameter with white involucral bracts at the base, the intermediate bracts the longest. Flowering occurs throughout the year, and the cypselas are about long, crusty and glossy dark brown with a bristly pappus.
Taxonomy
This species was first described in 1905 by Joseph Maiden and Ernst Betche who gave it the name Helichrysum boormanii in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. In 2008, Paul Graham Wilson transferred the species to Coronidium as C. boormanii in the journal Nuytsia.
This species of everlasting is found from Atherton in north Queensland to Tenterfield in northern New South Wales, where it grows in woodland and forest.
Coronidium boormanii is listed as of "least concern" in Queensland, under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.