Xerochrysum copelandii J.J.Bruhl & I.Telford APNI* Description: Erect, rhizomatous or taprooted perennial herb up to c. 1 m tall. Stems with glands, glabrous, or cobbwebby and becoming glabrecent with age.
Basal leaves absent at flowering. Basal leaves spathuate, base sessile. Cauline leaves oblanceolate or lanceolate, mm long x mm wide, bases amplicaule or sessile, apex mucronate, margins entire, scabrid with tooth-like hcoarse hairs; under leaf surface with scattered sessile glands over topped by occasional septate hairs, coarse tooth-like hairs on the midrib; upper leaf surface with scattered coarse teeth-like hairs; young leaves may be cobwebby, but soon lost.
Leafy floral bracts 8–10 mm long. Inflorescences terminal, paniculate on peduncles cm long. Heads 2.5–5 cm wide.Outer involucre bracts broad ovate, brown to straw coloured, apex acuminate; middle involucre bracts narrow ovate to lanceolate, yellow, apex acuminate to cuspidate.
Achenes c. 2.5 mm long x 0.75 mm wide, light brown to staw coloured, rounded to squarish in cross-section. Pappus deciduous, 6 mm long.
Flowering: Summer, fruitinglate summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Endemic to NSW. Along the eastern escarpment from Tenterfield to Walcha. Grows in grassy woodlands on ridge tops, escarpments and gorge rims, in rocky sites on sandstones or baslt.
NSW subdivisions: NT
Formerly included within a morphologically variable Xerochrysum bracteatum.
Text by Modified by Peter Jobson July 2025
Taxon concept: T.L. Collins et al. (2022) There's gold in them thar hills! Morphology and molecules delimit species in Xerochrysum (Asteraceae: Gnaphalieae) and reveal new taxa. Aust. Syst. Bot. 35: 120-185.
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