| Brachyglottis bellidioides | |
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| Brachyglottis bellidioides in Nelson Lakes National Park | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Brachyglottis |
| Species: | B. bellidioides |
| Binomial name | |
| Brachyglottis bellidioides (Hook.f.) B.Nord. | |
Brachyglottis bellidioides is a species of flower known from the South Island of New Zealand. [2] [1] [3]
A dark green leave with deep-set veins, with a long stalk with a yellow flower head and petals.
This species is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand.
Alpine and subalpine habitats.
Brachyglottis bellidioides has thick leaves, which push aside leaves of other plants, particularly pincushion grass Agrostis muscosa , in order to leave a small hollow from which the leaves can get sun and a stem can grow.
The species epithet notes that the plant is similar to Bellis . [1]
Brachyglottis bellidioides contains the following varieties: [3]
Some authors have argued that on the basis of clinal morphology, there is only a single species of Brachyglottis in New Zealand, which would subsume Brachyglotts bellidioides into Brachyglottis lagopus . [4]
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