''Streptoglossa liatroides'' is a species of 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 ...
. It is a low, spreading or upright perennial herb with pink or red to purple flowers. It grows in South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
Description
''Streptoglossa liatroides '' is a short-lived, upright or with prostrate stems, annual or perennial herb growing to about high, and sparsely branched. The leaves and branches are faintly fragrant, and covered with soft, weak, separated thin hairs and glandular. The leaves are oblong-lance shaped or spoon-shaped, long, wide, gradually narrowing at the base, margins smooth or toothed and rounded or pointed at the apex. The
"flowers" are borne singly on branches at least long, florets in a group of 50-190,
corolla long, glandular and with 5 lobes. Flowering occurs from April to November and the fruit is dry, one-seeded, long, ribbed, thickly or sparsely covered in silky, flattened hairs.
Taxonomy and naming
''Streptoglossa liatroides'' was first described by
Nicolai Stepanovitch Turczaninow
Nikolai Stepanovich Turczaninow ( ru , Николай Степанович Турчанинов, 1796 in Nikitovka, now in Krasnogvardeysky District, Belgorod Oblast, Russia – 1863 in Kharkov) was a Russian botanist and plant collector who ...
as ''Erigeron liatroides''.
In 1981
Clyde Robert Dunlop Clyde may refer to:
People
* Clyde (given name)
* Clyde (surname)
Places
For townships see also Clyde Township
Australia
* Clyde, New South Wales
* Clyde, Victoria
* Clyde River, New South Wales
Canada
* Clyde, Alberta
* Clyde, Ontario, a to ...
changed the name to ''Streptoglossa liatroides'' and the description was published in ''
Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden
The Adelaide Botanic Garden is a public garden at the north-east corner of the Adelaide city centre, in the Adelaide Park Lands. It encompasses a fenced garden on North Terrace (between Lot Fourteen, the site of the old Royal Adelaide Hospital ...
''.
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 ...
(''liatroides'') means like the genus ''Liatris''.
Distribution and habitat
Wertaloona daisy grows in a variety of soils including coastal limestone, and sometimes on stony flats near sand dunes.
References
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Asterales of Australia
Flora of the Northern Territory
Flora of Western Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of South Australia
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