Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome muelleroides
Common name
Claypan Daisy, Mueller Daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Swampy dry forest, grassland, damp depressions, lagoon and claypan margins in mud or water, and flood plains. Western Slopes.
Notes
Annual herb to 0.2 m high. Mostly hairless. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, 1–7 cm long, 1–15 mm wide, margins entire or with 1 or 2 threadlike lobes, tips pointed. Flower heads with white 'petals' 2-4.5 mm long, and yellow centres. 8–10 bracts appressed to the flower heads. Flower heads single. Flowering September–November.
Definite identification of most species of Brachyscome depends on microscopic examination of the seeds.
Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10107 (accessed 4 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brachyscome~muelleroides (accessed 4 January, 2021)
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