Podolepis decipiens
{{Short description|Species of herb}}
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| genus = Podolepis
| species = decipiens
| authority = Jeanes{{cite web |title=Podolepis decipiens |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/3662181 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=11 March 2023}}
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Podolepis decipiens, commonly known as deceiving copperwire-daisy,{{cite web |title=Podolepis decipiens |url=https://www.apstas.org.au/flora-1/6482gddta68adgg-gzae3-ymfnw-h2jlx-ztnde-8cyzn |publisher=Australian Plant Society Tasmania |access-date=11 March 2023}} is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae and grows in Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales. It is an upright, perennial herb with yellow daisy-like flowers on a single stem rising from a sparse rosette.
Description
Podolepis decipiens is a perennial herb to {{cvt|70|cm}} high with a single upright or several woolly stems from a rootstock that is renewed yearly. The leaves are covered sparsely to densely with flattened hairs, margins more or less flat to rolled under, upper surface rough, basal leaves in a sparse rosette, lance, oblong, oval or egg-shaped, {{cvt|3-20|cm}} long, {{cvt|5-30|mm}} wide, leaves toward apex stem-clasping, sessile, mostly linear to linear to lance-shaped, usually {{cvt|1-10|cm}} long and {{cvt|2-15|mm}} wide. The flowers are bright yellow or orange, usually single, with 20-40 fringed petals, mostly {{cvt|20-40|mm}} in diameter, bracts papery in several rows and on a peduncle {{cvt|4-10|cm}} long. Flowering occurs from August to February and the fruit is a cypsela {{cvt|2-4|mm}} long, about {{cvt|1|mm}} wide and covered with barbed bristles.{{cite web |title=Podolepis decipiens |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/1129a852-5c51-4c6a-84a5-4ce195f356ec |website=VICFLORA-flora of Victoria |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |access-date=12 March 2023}}{{cite web |last1=Murray |first1=Louisa |title=Podolepis decipiens |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Podolepis~decipiens |website=PlantNET-NSW flora online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney |access-date=12 March 2023}}
Taxonomy and naming
Podolepis decipiens was first formally described in 2015 by Jeffrey A. Jeanes and the description was published in Muelleria.{{cite web |title=Podolepis decipiens |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/3663323 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=12 March 2023}}{{cite journal |last1=Jeanes |first1=Jeffrey |title=Podolepis decipiens |journal=Muelleria |date=2015 |volume=33 |pages=26-28 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59608981#page/27/mode/1up |access-date=12 March 2023}} The specific epithet (decipiens) means "deceiving" because in has been confused with Podolepis jaceoides.{{cite book |last1=George |first1=A.S |last2=Sharr |first2=F.A |title=Western Australian Plant Names and their meanings |date=2021 |publisher=Four Gables |location=Kardinya |isbn=9780958034197 |page=183 |edition=4th}}