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Microseris scapigera Sch.Bip.

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial herb; underground stem sympodial, erect, 3–25 mm long; roots several, non-tuberous, gradually tapering, never producing adventitious shoots. Leaves all basal, linear to narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 4–30 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, entire to dentate or pinnatifid. Scapes unbranched, naked, 10–50 cm long; capitula 8–40-flowered; involucre 10–20 mm long; outer bracts subequal, usually calyculate; inner bracts elongate, ± equal. Florets: ligules yellow; outer ligules 5–10 mm long and somewhat exceeding involucre. Achenes slender, straight, 4–12 mm long. Pappus parts 30–66, ± equal, each with a basal scale 1–4 mm long, 0.15–0.35 mm wide tapering into a scabrid awn or outer parts shorter and ±capillary throughout.
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Perennial with short, vertical, much-branched caudex and ∞ fleshy taproots. Lvs all basal, glab. or furfuraceous, entire to denticulate to pinnatifid. Scapes ± furfuraceous, naked, unbranched, striate. Bracteoles deltoid to elliptic or lanceolate, obtuse to acuminate. Florets yellow, conspicuously exceeding phyll. Achenes narrowed to base, distinctly ribbed, the ribs smooth. Pappus-hairs c. 14-24, stiff, brownish, widened to membranous base, barbellate above.
An erect herb. It forms tubers. The root tubers are branching. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 15-80 cm high. The flowers are yellow.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature height (meter) 0.3
Root system adventitious-root fibrous-root tap-root
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Environment

Grassland and open places on North, South and Stewart Islands in New Zealand. Loamy soils or moist clay up to the montane and sub-alpine zones in Australia. Also found on salt pans.
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It is a warm temperate plant. It grows on heavy soils and in some Alpine regions. It grows on sandy soils and the edges of salt lakes.
Grows in dark loam, peat and waterlogged black or grey basalt soils in grassland and herbfield, from near sea level to c. 1500 m.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
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Hardiness (USDA) 7-11

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Edible roots tubers
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Images

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Distribution

Microseris scapigera world distribution map, present in Australia and New Zealand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:232661-1
WFO ID wfo-0000023120
COL ID 436CS
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Synonyms

Scorzonera scapigera Scorzonera lawrencii Microseris scapigera Scorzonella scapigera Microseris obtusifolia Microseris forsteri Microseris scapigera f. scapigera Galasia scapigera Scorzonera scapigera Microseris forsteri var. forsteri
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