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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Xerochrysum
|accepted_authority=Tzvelev
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast.
|place=27: 151. 1990
|year=1990
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Bracteantha
|authority=Anderberg & Haegi
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae;Xerochrysum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Xerochrysum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek xeros, dry, and chrysos, gold, perhaps alluding to phyllaries
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 59, 387
|treatment_page=page 427
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> biennials, or perennials, 20–90+ cm; taprooted (rhizomatous, not stoloniferous). <b>Stems</b> usually 1, erect (rarely 1–2 or more times branched; usually arachnose and ± stipitate-glandular). <b>Leaves</b> cauline; alternate; sessile (or nearly so); blades elliptic or spatulate to oblanceolate, lanceolate, or linear, bases cuneate, margins entire, faces concolor, usually arachnose and ± stipitate-glandular. <b>Heads</b> disciform, borne singly or (2–3) in loose, corymbiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> ± hemispheric, 10–30 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> in 3–8+ series, usually yellow or brown to purple, sometimes white or pinkish (opaque, stereomes not glandular), unequal, usually chartaceous toward tips (spreading at flowering, deflexed in age). <b>Receptacles</b> flat, glabrous, epaleate. <b>Peripheral</b> (pistillate) florets (0–)25–50 (fewer than bisexual); corollas yellow. <b>Inner</b> (bisexual) florets 200–400; corollas yellow (lobes erect). <b>Cypselae</b> columnar to ± prismatic (4-angled), faces smooth, glabrous; pappi readily falling, of 25–35+, distinct or loosely basally ± coherent, subplumose to barbellate bristles in 1 series (falling separately or in groups or rings). <b>x</b> = 12, 13, 14, 15.</span><!--

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|distribution=Australia;cultivated and escaping in many areas elsewhere.
|discussion=<p>Species 6 (1 in the flora).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Xerochrysum
|author=Guy L. Nesom
|authority=Tzvelev
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=Bracteantha
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Barbara Alongi
|distribution=Australia;cultivated and escaping in many areas elsewhere.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast.
|publication year=1990
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/9216fc802291cd3df363fd52122300479582ede7/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_705.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae
|genus=Xerochrysum
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