''Podolepis decipiens'', commonly known as deceiving copperwire-daisy, is a flowering plant in the family
Asteraceae
The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...
and grows in Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales. It is an upright, perennial herb with yellow daisy-like flowers on a single stem rising from a sparse rosette.
Description
''Podolepis decipiens'' is a perennial herb to high with a single upright or several woolly stems from a rootstock that is renewed yearly. The leaves are covered sparsely to densely with flattened hairs, margins more or less flat to rolled under, upper surface rough, basal leaves in a sparse rosette, lance, oblong, oval or egg-shaped, long, wide, leaves toward apex stem-clasping,
sessile
Sessility, or sessile, may refer to:
* Sessility (motility), organisms which are not able to move about
* Sessility (botany), flowers or leaves that grow directly from the stem or peduncle of a plant
* Sessility (medicine), tumors and polyps that ...
, mostly linear to linear to lance-shaped, usually long and wide. The flowers are bright yellow or orange, usually single, with 20-40 fringed petals, mostly in diameter,
bract
In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...
s papery in several rows and on a
peduncle Peduncle may refer to:
*Peduncle (botany), a stalk supporting an inflorescence, which is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed
*Peduncle (anatomy), a stem, through which a mass of tissue is attached to a body
**Peduncle (art ...
long. Flowering occurs from August to February and the fruit is a cypsela long, about wide and covered with barbed bristles.
Taxonomy and naming
''Podolepis decipiens'' was first formally described in 2015 by Jeffrey A. Jeanes and the description was published in '' Muelleria''. The
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
(''decipiens'') means "deceiving" because in has been confused with ''
Podolepis jaceoides
''Podolepis'' is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae within the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to Australia and can be found in every state.
Distribution and habitat
Deceiving copper wire-daisy is a widespread species found in a variety of habitats including grasslands, woodlands, forests, alpine and near coastal locations in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Queensland.