Coronidium boormanii
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| Coronidium boormanii | |
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| In Bald Rock National Park | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Coronidium |
| Species: | C. boormanii |
| Binomial name | |
| Coronidium boormanii | |
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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.
Coronidium boormanii is a woody herb that typically grows to a height of 60–100 cm (24–39 in) and has stems densely covered with short glandular hairs. Its leaves are sessile, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 40–100 mm (1.6–3.9 in) long, 1.0–1.8 mm (0.039–0.071 in) 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 30–60 mm (1.2–2.4 in) in diameter with white involucral bracts at the base, the intermediate bracts the longest. Flowering occurs throughout the year, and the cypselas are about 2.5 mm (0.098 in) long, crusty and glossy dark brown with a bristly pappus.[2][3]
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.[4][5] In 2008, Paul Graham Wilson transferred the species to Coronidium as C. boormanii in the journal Nuytsia.[3][6]