Brachyscome paludicola

Commonly stoloniferous or rhizomatous, ascending to erect perennial (rarely annual) herb, branches to c. 60 cm long. Leaves cauline, entire, linear or narrowly elliptic, 2–8.5 cm long, 0.7–5 mm wide, glabrous. Flowering branches glabrous or sometimes with a few, shortly ­stalked glandular hairs; capitula c. 1–2.5 cm diam. including rays; bracts 12–20, in c. 1 or 2 rows, c. equal, obovate to oblanceolate or somewhat elliptic, 2.3–3.7 mm long, 0.9–2.3 mm wide, mainly herbaceous but with scarious margins which may be purplish, glabrous or with a few glandular hairs; ray florets 17–50, 5.7–9 mm long, white but yellowish on drying, sometimes pinkish on undersurface; disc florets 65–110, yellow. Cypselas obovoid, 1.1–2.6 mm long, 0.5–1.35 mm wide, uniformly brown; lateral faces each with 2 near-marginal ridges, conspicuously tuberculate and with eglandular curved hairs and some glandular hairs; marginal ribs more or less smooth; pappus absent or to c. 0.1 mm high. Flowers mostly Sep.–Jan.