Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Brachyscome Cass.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Brachyscome linearis (Petrie) Druce, Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 4 Suppl.: 610 (1917) – as Brachycome linearis
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Lagenophora linearis Petrie, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 25: 271 (1892 [1893])
  • = Brachyscome lineata Kirk, Stud. Fl. New Zealand 259 (1899) – as Brachyscome lineata
 Description

Glabrous annual rosette herb. Lvs apetiolate, linear to very narrowly linear-spathulate, mostly entire, very rarely with 1–2 teeth near apex, obtuse to acute, 10–25 × 0.5–2 mm. Peduncle naked, 1–3 cm long and 0.2–0.5 mm diam. at flowering, elongating to 2.5–4.5 cm at fruiting. Involucral bracts ovate to oblong, obtuse and fimbriate at apex, 1–1.5 mm long. Rays c. 8–12, white, 0.5–2 mm long. Disc yellowish green. Achenes obovoid-oblong, compressed, eglandular, 1–1.5 mm long; pappus usually of few bristles c. 0.1 mm long, sometimes 0 in mature achenes.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Nov.–Dec.

 Bibliography
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