Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Brachyscome ciliaris
Variable daisy
Asteraceae
Forest, woodland, shrubland, grassy areas, roadsides, and lake margins. Widespread but rarely coast and ranges.
Annual or perennial herb or shrub to 0.45 m tall. Scapes hairless, sticky, hairy, or sticky-hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.5-6 cm long, 1–20 mm wide, hairless to hairy, sometimes sticky, margins entire, toothed, or deeply dissected, the segments sometimes dissected, tips pointed. Flower heads with 20-91 white to mauve or pink to purple ‘petals’ each 2-9 mm long, and yellow centres 2.6-15 mm in diameter. Bracts appressed to the flower heads 12-30. Flowers most of the year. 'Seeds' flattened, usually some winged, some not winged.
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~ciliaris (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: 59-62. This description no longer recognises subspecies.
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