The Wertabona Daisy (Streptoglossa liatroides) is a perennial herb measuring between 10-15 cm high, procumbent, with flower heads held on erect stems, sparsely branched and short-lived.
Found flowering in late winter to spring, mainly after rain. These were found growing on low land off the Stuart Highway, south of Alice Springs, on stony plains.
The flower here were a pink to purplish hue. The leaves are oblanceolate or oblong-cuneate.
These flowering Wertabona Daisies appeared with the mass flowering of other flora including the Pink Mulla Mulla.
Other similar species found in NT include Streptoglossa adscendens (Desert Daisy) and Steptoglossa decurrens/odora.
Glossary:
- cuneate
a wedge-shaped leaf with an acute angle at the base. - lanceolate
about four times as long as it is broad, being broadest in the lower half tapering towards the tip. - oblanceolate
similar in shape to lanceolate, but attached at the narrower end. - oblong
leaf that is rounded at each end with parallel sides and the length being greater than the width. - procumbent
trailing or spreading along the ground, but not rooting at the stem nodes.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Charophyta
- Class: Equisetopsida
- Subclass: Magnoliidae
- Superorder: Asteranae
- Order: Asterales
- Family: Asteraceae
- Genus: Streptoglossa
- Species: Streptoglossa liatroides
Footnote & References
- Streptoglossa liatroides (Turcz.) Dunlop, Western Australian Herbarium (1998–). Florabase—the Western Australian Flora. Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/8238
- Streptoglossa liatroides (Turcz.) Dunlop, NSW FloraOnline, PlanetNET, https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Streptoglossa~liatroides
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