Calotis scabiosifolia var. integrifolia

Rough Burr-daisy at Delegate, NSW

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Identification history

Calotis scabiosifolia var. integrifolia	28 Nov 2018	BettyDonWood
Calotis scabiosifolia var. integrifolia	28 Nov 2018	BettyDonWood
Brachyscome radicans	27 Nov 2018	BettyDonWood
Brachyscome sp.	25 Nov 2018	BlackFlat

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Delegate cemetery

8 comments

BettyDonWood wrote:

26 Nov 2018

I am inclined to think this is Brachyscome radicans rather than Brachyscome obovata, which usually occurs at higher altitudes.
https://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/plants_se_nsw/key/plants_se_nsw/Media/Html/entities/brachyscome_radicans.htm

JackieMiles wrote:

27 Nov 2018

I'm not familiar with radicans, but I'd call that one scapigera, just going on leaf shape. Usually grows in dampish grassland to outright bog.

BettyDonWood wrote:

27 Nov 2018

I don’t think it is scapigera, which has 45-90 petals. Radicans has 14-43 petals and grows in bogs and alomg stream banks. Obovata has 25-30 petals, and likes it wer too.

BlackFlat wrote:

27 Nov 2018

Definitely not a wet area. Sandy granite soils on exposed hillside. Growing in dense Themeda. OEH staff coming for a field day near by on Friday to share the Tarango leek Orchid with locals. I will get them to drop in at the cemetery and see what they think.

BettyDonWood wrote:

27 Nov 2018

Looking forward to hearing what they say. After all this discussion, I am coming to think it could be an exotic. And not a Brachyscome at all.

JackieMiles wrote:

28 Nov 2018

Ah-hah, I think I've been caught out by this before. How about Calotis scabiosifolia var integrigolia? The darkish purple colour is good for that (better than for Brachyscome which are usually paler) and I can see the odd small tooth on the leaf margins which also fits. I even have photos of it from down that way.

BettyDonWood wrote:

28 Nov 2018

That makes a lot of sense. I was thrown by the short flower stalk.

BlackFlat wrote:

29 Nov 2018

Thank you ladies!

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