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:                unknown  

Conservation status:  unknown

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

• 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.

• Distribution and occurrence: Widespread on the ranges and inland districts.

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

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