Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome papillosa
Common name
Mossgiel Daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Woodland, shrubland, and grassland. Western Slopes.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.4 m tall. Plants sticky hairy, young shoots woolly. Leaves alternating up the stems, to 7 cm long, hairy, sticky, margins entire to lobed, each lobe to 0.7 cm long and about 2 mm wide. Flower heads with about 40 mauve to white 'petals' about 8 mm long, and yellow centres 6–11 mm in diameter. About 18 bracts appressed to the flower heads. Flower heads single. Flowering: June–December.
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.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10106 (accessed 4 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brachyscome~papillosa (accessed 4 January, 2021)
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