Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Brachyscome Cass., Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 199 (1816), nom. cons. – as Brachycome
 Description

Annual or perennial herbs, rarely subshrubs. Lvs alternate, basal or cauline, simple, entire to pinnatifid. Capitula solitary or numerous. Involucral bracts in 2–3 rows, imbricate, herbaceous with membranous margins. Receptacle slightly convex to hemispheric; scales 0. Outer florets ♀, ligulate, in 1 row; ligules white, to pink, blue or purple. Inner florets ☿, tubular, few to numerous. Achenes dimorphic or all similar, terete or compressed, mostly obovoid or oblong, hairy, glandular or glabrous, sometimes with ribs or wings; pappus usually of a ring of small to large free or united simple bristles, sometimes 0.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Number of species in New Zealand within Brachyscome Cass.
CategoryNumber
Indigenous (Endemic)8
Exotic: Casual2
Total10
 Bibliography
Brummitt, R.K. 1993: Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 38. Taxon 42: 687–697.
Cassini, H. 1816: Aperpu des genres nouveaux formes par M. Henri Cassini, dans la famille des Synantherees . Bulletin des Sciences, de la Société Philomatique de Paris (Fasc. 1): 198–199.
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.