Brachyglottis bellidioides
{{Short description|Species of flowering plants}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=January 2025}}
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| image = Brachyglottis_bellidioides_-_Richard_Littauer_-_464902544.jpeg
| image_caption = Brachyglottis bellidioides in Nelson Lakes National Park
| image_alt = A yellow flow with green leaves on a bank with lichen and mosses
| status = NT
| status_system = NZTCS
| genus = Brachyglottis
| species = bellidioides
| authority = (Hook.f.) B.Nord.
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Brachyglottis bellidioides is a species of flower known from the South Island of New Zealand.{{cite web |title=Brachyglottis bellidioides |url=https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/400054-Brachyglottis-bellidioides |website=iNaturalist |access-date=4 February 2025 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Brachyglottis bellidioides var. orbiculata |url=https://www.nzpcn.org.nz/flora/species/brachyglottis-bellidioides-var-orbiculata/ |access-date=2025-02-04 |website=New Zealand Plant Conservation Network |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Brachyglottis bellidioides (Hook.f.) B.Nord. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:186045-1 |access-date=2025-02-04 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}
Description
A dark green leave with deep-set veins, with a long stalk with a yellow flower head and petals.
Range
This species is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand.
Habitat
Alpine and subalpine habitats.
Ecology
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.
Etymology
The species epithet notes that the plant is similar to Bellis.
Taxonomy
Brachyglottis bellidioides contains the following varieties:
- Brachyglottis bellidioides var. angustata
- Brachyglottis bellidioides var. bellidioides
- Brachyglottis bellidioides var. crassa
- Brachyglottis bellidioides var. orbiculata
- Brachyglottis bellidioides var. setosa
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.{{Cite journal |last1=Millar |first1=Timothy R. |last2=Breitwieser |first2=Ilse |last3=Pelser |first3=Pieter B. |last4=Smissen |first4=Rob D. |date=2018-07-03 |title=A new classification of rosette-forming Brachyglottis (Asteraceae: Senecioneae) recognising a single species: Brachyglottis lagopus |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0028825X.2018.1474769 |journal=New Zealand Journal of Botany |language=en |volume=56 |issue=3 |pages=237–263 |doi=10.1080/0028825X.2018.1474769 |bibcode=2018NZJB...56..237M |issn=0028-825X|url-access=subscription }}
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