Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome barkerae
Common name
A daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Swamps and seepage areas in alpine and subalpine herbfields and grassland, and stream banks. Kosciuszko National Park. Occasionally tablelands to the east of Koscuszko National Park.
Notes
Clumping perennial herb to 0.2 m high, stoloniferous. Scapes hairy to stcky hairy. Leaves mainly in basal clusters, 1-9 cm long, 1.8-3.5 mm wide, mostly hairless, mostly entire, some leaves with 1–6 lobes, margins membranous. Flower heads with white 'petals' about 10-15 mm long, and yellow centres 10-17 mm in diameter. Bracts appressed to the flower heads about 20-30. Flower heads single. Flowers Dec.–Apr.
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~barkerae (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: 141-142
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