Brachyscome diversifolia

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

Wikipedia links:       Angiosperm > Eudicots > Asterids > Asterales > Asteraceae > Brachyscome 

Other links:     https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brachyscome~diversifolia

Plant  information

Common name:                . . .  

Conservation status:  . . .

Etymology:   

•  The genus name Brachyscome is from the classical Greek brachys ("short") and kome ("hair"), a reference to the very short pappus bristles

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Flowers:                  

• Heads solitary, c. 18 mm diam.; peduncle to 22 cm long, with numerous reduced leaves; involucral bracts broad-linear, acute, entire or serrulate, glandular. Ray florets white to mauve; ligule c. 12 mm long

Fruit:                         

• Achenes narrow-cuneate, 4-angled, curved, 2–2.8 mm long, light to dark brown, rounded apically, 2 longitudinal folds on each side; pappus of white obliquely-placed hairs, c. 0.5 mm long.

Leaves:         

• Leaves cuneate, to 9.5 cm long, pinnatisect apically with oblong lobes to 10 mm long and 3.5 mm wide, margins entire and expanded at the base, apex obtuse to acute

Stem & branches: 

Roots:         

Habit:        

• Erect or ascending perennial to 45 cm high, glandular and septate-hairy.

Habitat:   

Distribution:                  

• Widespread on the ranges and inland districts

• NSW subdivisions: NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS, SWS, NWP

• Other Australian states: Qld Tas. S.A.

Additional notes:     

Sources of information:

•     https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brachyscome~diversifolia (2023)