Brachyscome campylocarpa, commonly known as large white daisy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and is endemic to Australia. It is an annual herb with many erect or ascending stems, linear or pinnatisect leaves with four to nine lobes, and white, daisy-like flowers white a yellow centre.
Description Brachyscome campylocarpa is an annual herb that typically grows to a height of or more, with many erect or ascending stems, branches long. The leaves are borne at the base of the plant or on the stems and are arranged alternately, sometimes linear long and wide, or pinnatisect, long with four to nine oblong to linear lobes long and wide. The involucre at the base of the flower is about in diameter with seven to thirteen bracts long and the peduncle extends above the leaves. There are five to fifteen florets long and wide surrounding up to 100 yellow disc florets. The cypselas are mostly dark brown to black, long.
Taxonomy Brachyscome campylocarpa was first formally described by John McConnell Black in 1928 and the description was published in Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia from specimens collected on Minnie Downs near the Diamantina River.
Distribution and habitat Large white daisy grows in depressions between sand dunes and on flood plains in central and southern South Australia and in south-western Queensland.
Conservation status Brachyscome campylocarpa is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.
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