Coronidium flavum
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| Coronidium flavum | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Coronidium |
| Species: | C. flavum |
| Binomial name | |
| 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.
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 75 cm (30 in). Its leaves are sessile, narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, wedge-shaped at the base, mostly 40–50 mm (1.6–2.0 in) long. The flowers are yellow and borne in a hemispherical head about 25 mm (0.98 in) in diameter, the outer involucral bracts woolly, yellow, linear to lance-shaped about 4 mm (0.16 in) long, and the inner bracts about 8 mm (0.31 in) long. The cypselas are about 1.3 mm (0.051 in) long, thin and transparent with a pappus with thread-like bristles.[2][3]
Taxonomy
Coronidium flavum was first described in 2008 by Paul Graham Wilson in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected 18.5 km (11.5 mi) west of Paluma in 1989.[2][4] The specific epithet (flavum) means 'yellow', and refers to the colour of the involucral bracts.[2][3]