Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Brachyscome chrysoglossa
Common name
Yellow-tongue Daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Open woodland and grassland, usually on clay soils subject to flooding. Western Slopes.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.4 m high. Flower stalks hairless to sparsely hairy, at least the upper part with scattered to dense glandular hairs. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, 1–11 cm long, 2–18 mm wide, hairless or with glandular and non-glandular hairs, entire, or the upper sections deeply dissected into 3–12 lobes, sometimes with 1-2 small lobes towards the base of the leaf. Flower heads with 28-91 yellow 'petals' each 5–9 mm long, and yellow centres 5–9 mm in diameter. Bracts appressed to the flower heads 13-24. Flower heads single.
Definite identification of most species of Brachyscome depends on microscopic examination of the seeds.
Vulnerable Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Brachyscome~chrysoglossa (accessed 6 January, 2021)
Description partly based on that in 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: 82-84, Figs 2G, H, 26
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