Brachyscome longiscapa

Detailed description

Perennial rosette forming herb. Leaves spathulate, or cuneately narrowed to a winged petiole, and ovate to obovate, mostly entire, between 12 mm and 60 mm (usually between 30 mm and 60 mm) long and between 3 mm and 15 mm (usually between 7 mm and 15 mm) wide, sometimes with 1–6 pairs of shallow lobes, glabrous but sometimes with few hairs on upper surface and with many stalked glandular hairs on lower surface and margin; leaf tips obtuse to subacute. Peduncles usually leafless, sometimes with 1 scale-like leaf, and usually sparsely to moderately clothed in glandular hairs at least near capitulum, but rarely glabrous, between 50mm and 200mm (usually between 120 mm and 200 mm) long, and between 0.5 mm and 1.2 mm in diameter at flowering, extending up to 300 mm long at fruiting. Involucral bracts lanceolate to elliptic-oblong and obtuse to acute and fimbriate at their apex, glandular hairy and between 3 mm and 6 mm (usually between 4 mm and 6 mm) long. Ray florets numerous and usually white, sometimes tinged pink on the reverse side, and are between 5 mm and 8 mm long. Disc florets greenish yellow. Achenes obovoid, compressed, eglandular, between 1.5 mm and 2 mm long, with a pappus of a few bristles, between 0.1 mm and 0.3 mm long. (Description adapted from Webb et al., 1988)