Brachyscome melanocarpa subsp. melanocarpa

Annual or perennial, weakly erect to erect herb, branches to c. 50 cm long. Leaves basal and cauline, sessile, linear-oblanceolate or linear-spathulate in outline, 1–9 cm long, 2.5–20 mm wide, with glandular hairs sparse to dense and eglandular hairs mostly confined to midrib and margins, entire or lobate; lobes acute to obtuse, 1–5, commonly entire, sometimes with minor secondary lobes or teeth. Flowering branches with eglandular hairs and shorter glandular hairs, the latter dense below capitula; capitula including rays c. 1–2.5 cm diam.; bracts 12–23, 1-seriate but overlapping, equal, mostly obovate, occasionally elliptic or ovate, 3.4–6.6 mm long, 1.6–4.1 mm wide, acute to obtuse, with scattered to dense glandular hairs, mainly green and herbaceous but with very narrow laciniate hyaline margins and hyaline whitish or purplish apex; ray florets c. 21–38, 8.3–15.8 mm long, mauve or white; disc florets c. 60–170, yellow. Cypselas obovate, laterally compressed to manifestly rounded and subcylindrical, 1.9–2.9 mm long, 0.9–1.75 mm wide, initially brown but maturing to black; lateral faces prominently tuberculate, tubercles with curved hairs; apex with glandular hairs; margins smooth or tuberculate; pappus c. 0.1–1.1 mm long. Flowers Aug.–Dec.