Coronidium flavum
Coronidium flavum is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is an erect, annual or short-lived perennial herb with woolly stems, narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and heads of yellow flowers.
Description
Coronidium flavum is an erect, annual or short-lived perennial herb with woolly stems and branches that typically grows to a height of up to. Its leaves are sessile, narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, wedge-shaped at the base, mostly long. The flowers are yellow and borne in a hemispherical head about in diameter, the outer involucral bracts woolly, yellow, linear to lance-shaped about long, and the inner bracts about long. The cypselas are about long, thin and transparent with a pappus with thread-like bristles.
Taxonomy
Coronidium flavum was first described in 2008 by Paul Graham Wilson in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected west of Paluma in 1989. The specific epithet means 'yellow', and refers to the colour of the involucral bracts.
Distribution and habitat
This species of everlasting is found in the Wet Tropics, in the hills bordering the Paluma Range National Park north-west of Townsville where it grows in shrubby woodland on rocky slopes in sandy soils over granite.
Conservation status
Coronidium flavum is listed as of "least concern" in Queensland, under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.