Rayless Fringed Daisy
Flower, above
Variable Daisy
Whole
Animals
Plants
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| Rayless Fringed Daisy Flower, above | | Variable Daisy Whole | | ||
Animals Plants Info |
 | Class: | Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) | ||||||||||||||
| Order: | Sunflowers (Asterales) | |||||||||||||||
| Family: | Daisy (Asteraceae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
| Species: | Rayless Fringed Daisy (Brachyscome ciliaris var brachyglossa)| This Photo: | 🔍Flower, profile🔎 | Synonym: | Brachycome ciliaris var brachyglossa | Thank you Karen Weaving for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere This is a very interesting plant. In the 2010 survey of the Murray Mallee, it was removed from the project area as "variety will disappear - mutant" However, more recently in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, vol 28, 2014,1-219, Short noted: "The combination of highly reduced ray corollas and a distinctive leaf morphology indicate that this is a taxon well-worthy of recognition." Seeds of SA has it as Rare in our region and yet Atlas doesn't recognise it.
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