Helichrysum apiculatum

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• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Family Compositae

The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.

Genus Helichrysum

[Annuals , biennials, perennials ,] subshrubs , or shrubs (often aromatic ), mostly 20-80 cm; taprooted. Stems usually 1, usually erect , sometimes decumbent to procumbent (± woolly-tomentose, usually stipitate- or sessile-glandular as well) . Leaves cauline; alternate; petiolate [sessile]; blades ovate [spatulate to lanceolate or linear ], bases cuneate to truncate [usually clasping and/or decurrent], margins entire (sometimes revolute ), faces concolor [bicolor], usually gray to white and tomentose or sericeous [adaxial sometimes greenish and glabrescent ], sometimes stipitate- or sessile-glandular as well. Heads disciform or discoid , in glomerules in corymbiform arrays. Involucres campanulate , 4-8 mm. Phyllaries in 3-5[-7] series, whitish [stramineous , orange, reddish, or pinkish] (opaque or hyaline , usually shiny; stereomes green, usually sessile-glandular distally) . Receptacles flat, glabrous , epaleate. Peripheral (pistillate ) florets 0 or 1-2 (fewer than bisexual ) : corollas yellowish. Inner (bisexual) florets 3-30[-50+]; corollas usually yellowish. Cypselae ± columnar , faces usually smooth , sometimes papillate (roughened by raised, imbricate tips of epidermal cells ), sometimes with 4-6 longitudinal ridges , glabrous [± strigose or myxogenic, papilliform hairs ]; pappi readily falling, of 12-20 distinct or loosely coherent basally, barbellate [subplumose] bristles in 1 series. x = 7.

Species about 600: introduced ; mostly Old World, especially s Africa and Madagascar.[1]

Taxonomy

Notes

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Helichrysum

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 47 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

H. adenophorum (Branched Everlasting) · H. angustifolium (Curry Plant) · H. angustifolium 'Nana' (Curry Plant) · H. arenarium (Everlasting Flower) · H. argyrophyllum (Golden Guinea Flower) · H. bellidioides (New Zealand Strawflower) · H. bracteatum (Bracted Strawflower) · H. bracteatum 'Pink Glow' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Salsa' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Silvery Rose' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Bronze' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Flame' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Golden Beauty' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Golden Yellow' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Pink' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze White' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Sundaze Yellow' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Tall Double Mix' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Victorian Blush' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. bracteatum 'Wallaby Flame' (Everlasting Daisy) · H. elatum (Irontree) · H. foetidum (Stinking Ever-Lasting) · H. fontanesii (Everlasting) · H. formosissimum (Everlasting-Flower) · H. heldreichii (Helichrysum) · H. italicum italicum (Curry Plant) · H. leucopsideum (Satin Everlasting) · H. melitense (Maltese Everlasting) · H. milfordiae (Alpine Everlasting) · H. petiolare (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'Lemon' (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'Licorice Splash' (Variegated Licorice Plant) · H. petiolare 'Limelight' (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'Petite' (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'Splash' (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'Variegata' (Helichrysum) · H. petiolare 'White Licorice' (Helichrysum) · H. roseum 'Pierrot' (Crisp Everlasting) · H. rutidolepis (Pale Everlasting) · H. scorpioides (Button Everlasting) · H. stoechas (Curry Plant) · H. thianschanicum 'Icicle' (Helichrysum) · H. 'Dreamtime Jumbo White' (White Strawflower) · H. 'Dreamtime Jumbo Yellow' (Yellow Strawflower) · H. 'Ruby Cluster' (Straw Flower) · H. 'Silver Mist' (Dwarf Licorice Plant) · H. 'Sulphur Light' (Sulphur Light Perennial Strawflower)

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Further Reading

• A contribution to the flora of Australia / by William Woolls. Sydney: F. White, 1867. url p. 196.
• A dictionary of English names of plants applied in England and among English-speaking people to cultivated and wild plants, trees, and shrubs, by William Miller; in two parts, English-Latin and Latin-English. London, J. Murray, 1884. url p. 42.
• A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations, Cedar Rapids, Ia., The Torch Press, 1911. url .
• A manual of poisonous plants: chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations / by L. H. Pammel. 1911 Cedar Rapids, Ia.: The Torch Press, 1910-11. url p. 755.
• Arboretum et fruticetum Britannicum; or, The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described; with their propagation, culture, mana London, Henry G. Bohn, 1854. url p. 1070.
• Compositae newsletter. Columbus, Ohio: Dept. of Botany, Ohio State University, 1975- url p. 19, p. 35.
• Hooker, J. D. The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839-1843: under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross /by Joseph Dalton Hooker. 3 1860 London: Reeve Brothers, 1844-60. url p. 212, p. lxviii.
• Johnson's Gardeners' dictionary and cultural instructor. London, A. T. De La Mare printing and publishing co., ltd.[1916] url p. 387.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url , , , , , , , , p. 127, p. 169, p. 199, p. 208, p. 231, p. 264, p. 318, p. 329, p. 389, p. 627, p. 627, p. 629, p. 646.
• Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. Melbourne: The Society, 1889- url p. 25.
• Report of the Australian Association for the advancement of Science. Sidney, The Association. url p. 451, p. 479, p. 511.
• Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia / London: Dulau, 1896. url .
• Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalisation with indications of their native countries and some of their uses / by Baron Ferd. von Mueller. Melbourne: R. S. Brain, govt. printer, 1895. url p. 251, p. 228.
• The Australian zoologist. Sydney, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales url p. 183, p. 207.
• The Gardeners' chronicle and agricultural gazette. London: published for the proprietors, 1844-1873. url p. 1334.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 494.
• The Tasmanian flora. Hobart, Tasmania, J. Vail, Govt. Printer, 1903. url .
• The Victorian naturalist. [Melbourne]Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. url p. 102, p. 109, p. 111, p. 114, p. 124, p. 143, p. 146, p. 160, p. 161, p. 163, p. 164, p. 178, p. 218, p. 25, p. 67, p. 67, p. 70.
• The botany of the Kimberleys, Northwest Australia. [Perth, W. Simpson, Govt. Printer]1918. url .
• The flora of the Northern Territory, Melbourne, McCarron, Bird & Co., Printers, 1917. url , .
• The illustrated dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists. Ed. by George Nicholson. Assisted by Professor J. W. H. Trail and J. Garrett. London: L. U. Gill, [1884]-89. url p. 127.
• Transactions and proceedings and report of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated). Adelaide: W.C. Rigby, 1904-1911. url p. 260, p. 263, p. 267, p. 269, p. 274.
• Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia (Incorporated). Adelaide: W.C. Rigby, 1912-1937. url p. 387, p. 563, p. 699.
• Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. Adelaide, Australia: The Society, 1890-1903. url p. 262, p. 320.
• Washburn & Co.'s amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden: containing a descriptive list of two thousand varieties of flower and vegetable seeds: also a list of French hybrid gladiolus, raised and imported by Washburn and Company, Seed Merchants. Boston, Mass.: The Company, 1869. url p. 147.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 01, 2008:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5848785
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1792675

Footnotes

1. Guy L. Nesom "Helichrysum". in Flora of North America Vol. 19, 20 and 21 Page 59, 384, 387, 425. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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