Family: Asteraceae
Brachycome trachycarpa
Citation:
F. Muell., Linnaea 25:399 (1853).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Smooth daisy.
Description:
Perennial herb or undershrub 10-40 cm high: stems erect, much branched, glabrous to scabfid, ribbed, produced annually from a woody stock or woody and perennial; leaves all cauline, sessile, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, acute, entire or pinnatisect with few linear lateral lobes, 1-3.5 cm long, to 1.5 mm wide, glabrous; peduncles in loose corymbs, filiform, leafless or with 1 or 2 minute leaves, glabrous or glandular; receptacle convex, c. 1.2 mm diam.; involucral bracts 12-20, oblong to obovate, subacute, 2-2.3 mm long, minutely glandular to glabrous, green, with slightly torn margins; ray florets 14-20; ligules broadly linear, c. 5 mm long, white to lilac; anthers without terminal appendages.
Achenes cuneate to oblanceolate, more or less flattened, 1.5-1.8 mm long, brown; margins narrow, wingless, smooth; faces tuberculate with glandular hairs; pappus a minute ring of connate teeth.
Distribution:
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In mallee and woodland, on sandy soils and among rocks.
All mainland States.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: most of the year.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
Populations of B. trachycarpa on the Nuyts Archipelago represent a variant with a compact habit and thickened fleshy leaves.
Author:
Not yet available
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