Description: Perennial herbs.
Leaves alternate, sessile, partially stem-clasping, entire, hairs glandular or cottony on both surfaces.
Heads solitary or several in a branched inflorescence, terminal, heterogamous, involucral bracts 8–12 seriate, rigid, opaque, yellow, white or pink, intermediate bracts longest, receptacle flat, with scales. Florets yellow. Anthers with concave appendages
Achenes quadrangular, glabrous; pappus barbellate.
Distribution and occurrence: World: more than 13 species, with some undescribed, all in Australia.
Text by Louisa Murray
Taxon concept: Anderberg in Kubitzki (2007) the Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 8:283 and Wilson, P.G.(2017) An examination of the Australian genus Xerochrysum (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) Nuytsia 28: 11-38
Taxa not yet included in identification key
Xerochrysum andrewiae,
Xerochrysum copelandii,
Xerochrysum murapan,
Xerochrysum neoanglicum,
Xerochrysum sp. North Stradbroke Island (L. Durrington 675),
Xerochrysum strictum
| | Key to the species | |
| 1 | Claw of medial involucral bracts with several veins that terminate at its apex | 2 |
| Claw of medial involucral bracts with a central vein that passes into the lamina | 3 |
| 2 | Stem and leaves markedly viscous, stems strongly scabrous with stiff hairs | Xerochrysum viscosum |
| Stem and leaves cottony or woolly; leaves scabrous-pubescent, especially on margins
Back to 1 | Xerochrysum bracteatum |
| 3 | Leaves glabrous or with cottony hairs on the margins; involucral bracts smooth; grows in swamps | Xerochrysum palustre |
| Leaves sparsely to moderately cottony; involucral bracts minutely scabrid abaxially; grows in open sites often on slopes chiefly in the Kosciusko area
Back to 1 | Xerochrysum subundulatum |
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