Classification
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Xerochrysum bracteatum (Vent.) Tzvelev, Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 27: 151 (1990)
Synonymy:
  • Xeranthemum bracteatum Vent. (1803)
  • Helichrysum bracteatum (Vent.) Andrews, Bot. Repos. 6, sub t. 428 (1805) – as Elychrisum bracteatum
  • Argyrocome bracteata (Vent.) B.D.Jacks (1895)
  • Bracteantha bracteata (Vent.) Anderb. & Haegi, Opera Bot. 104: 102 (1991) nom. illeg., nom. superfl.
  • = Helichrysum lucidum Henckel (1806) nom. illeg.
  • = Helichrysum chrysanthum Pers., Syn. Pl. (Persoon) 2, 414 (1807)
 Description

Erect annual herb, 20–60–(200) cm tall. Stems usually viscid and sparsely tomentose and becoming glabrous below, sometimes almost glabrous above, branched above to form infl. Lvs spreading, distant, sparsely hispidulous and glandular, especially on lower surface, ciliolate, apetiolate, oblanceolate, narrow- elliptic, or lanceolate, acute and mucronate, cuneate and amplexicaul, entire, 35–100–(150) × 5–15–(25) mm. Uppermost lvs much smaller, finally lanceolate or linear. Capitula 25–50 mm diam., c. 1–5 in corymbs. Involucral bracts in c. 7–15 rows, membranous, glabrous, radiating, bright yellow, gold, orange or white to red; middle bracts opaque, ovate, mucronate, c. 10–15 mm long; outer bracts much shorter, broad, less brightly coloured; inner bracts shorter, narrower, often paler or partly transparent. Disc yellow. Achenes glabrous, cylindric, pale brown and darker flecked, 2–2.5 mm long; pappus barbellate, slightly fused at base.

[From: Webb et al. (1985) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4 as Helichrysum bracteatum (Vent.) Andrews]

 Biostatus
Exotic
 Bibliography
Anderberg, A. A. 1991: Taxonomy and phylogeny of the tribe Gnaphalieae (Asteraceae). Opera Botanica 104: 1–195.
Andrews, H.C. 1804–1805: The Botanist's Repository comprising Coloured Engravings of New and Rare Plants only with Botanical Description in Latin and English after the Linnean System. Vol. 6. London.
Bayer, R. J. 2001: Xerochrysum Tzvelev, a pre-existing generic name for Bracteantha Anderb. & Haegi (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae). Kew Bulletin 56(4): 1013–1015.
Persoon, C. H. 1806–1807: Synopsis plantarum, seu enchiridium botanicum, complectens enumerationem systematicam specierum hucusque cognitarum. Vol. 2. Cramerum et Tubingæ, Paris.
Tzvelev, N. N. 1990: Notae de Asteraceis nonnullis partis Europaeae URSS. Novosti Sistematiki Vysshikh Rastenii 27: 145–152.