Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Asterales Link
Family
Compositae Giseke
Genus
Brachyscome Cass.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Brachyscome sinclairii Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 137 (1864) – as Brachycome sinclairii
Synonymy:
  • = Brachyscome radicata var. β Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 127 (1853) – as Brachycome radicata var. β
  • = Brachyscome sinclairii var. γ Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 138 (1864) – as Brachycome sinclairii var. γ
Vernacular Name(s):
grassland daisy
 Description

Perennial rosette herb. Lvs spathulate or cuneately narrowed to winged petiole and elliptic-oblong to obovate, usually with (3)–5–9 pairs of round teeth or lobes (often lyrate-pinnatifid), sometimes a few lvs entire, obtuse, usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely to moderately clothed in short-stalked glandular hairs on both surfaces or just on margin, 10–30–(45) × 4–10–(15) mm. Peduncle usually naked, sometimes with 1 scale-like lf, sparsely to moderately clothed in glandular hairs at least near capitulum, 3–11 cm long and 0.8–1.2 mm diam. at flowering, up to 15–(18) cm long at fruiting. Involucral bracts elliptic-oblong to spathulate, obtuse and fimbriate at apex, glandular at least at base, 3.5–6 mm long. Rays numerous, white, 6–10–(12) mm long. Disc yellow. Achenes obovoid, compressed, eglandular, 2–3 mm long; pappus of few bristles 0.1–0.3 mm long.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: (Aug.)–Nov.–Mar.–(May)

 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.