Xerochrysum sp.

Collins, Timothy L., Schmidt-Lebuhn, Alexander N., Andrew, Rose L., Telford, Ian R. H. & Bruhl, Jeremy J., 2022, There’s gold in them thar hills! Morphology and molecules delimit species in Xerochrysum (Asteraceae; Gnaphalieae) and reveal many new taxa, Australian Systematic Botany 35 (2), pp. 120-185 : 183

Xerochrysum sp. Tin Can Bay (T.L.Collins 1116) NE Herbarium

Erect, perennial, tap-rooted herb. Cauline leaves oblanceolate to lanceolate, margin cobwebby and hispid, apex acuminate to acute, and mucronate. Abaxial indumentum with glands, midvein indumentum hispid with scattered glands; adaxial indumentum cobwebby, hispid, and with glands. Medial phyllaries ovate to narrow ovate, abaxially orange, brown, or yellow.

Distribution and habitat

Collections in woodlands on sandy soils east of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, from Mackay to Tin Can Bay in the Central Mackay Coast, South Eastern Queensland bioregions are tentatively assigned to this entity.

Notes

Requires further sampling to test species limits. Treated in the analyses as X. sp. weedy.