Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome ptychocarpa
Common name
Tiny daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Woodland, shrubland, roadsides, rocky areas, and moist conditions and seepage areas. Ranges, tablelands, and Kosciuszko National Park. Mostly north of the Hume Highway.
Notes
Annual or short lived perennial herb to 0.2 m high, hairless. Leaves mainly basal, a few alternating up the stems, 1-6 cm long, linear to deeply dissected, the lobes to 0.6 cm long, about 1 mm wide, tips blunt with a mucro. Flower heads with 25-40 pink to white 'petals' 2.5–6.5 mm long, and yellow centres 5–8 mm in diameter. Bracts appressed to the flower heads 12-15. Flowering: most of the year.
Rare Vic.
Definite identification of most species of Brachyscome depends on microscopic examination of the seeds.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brachyscome~ptychocarpa (accessed 6 January, 2021)
Description partly based on: Short, P.S. (2014), A taxonomic review of Brachyscome Cass. s.lat. (Asteraceae: Astereae), including description of a new genus, Roebuckia, new species and new infraspecific taxa. Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens 28: 122-123
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