Calotis dentex commonly known as white burr-daisy,[1] is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is a small shrub with white daisy like flowers and grows in New South Wales and Queensland.
Calotis dentex is an upright, perennial, multi-branched, understory shrub to high with smooth or slightly hairy, brown stems. The cauline leaves are lance to oblong-shaped, long, wide, margins variable, lobed, toothed, sometimes entire, sessile and with occasional hairs. The white, occasionally mauve flowers are borne on stalks up to long, in diameter, either singly or in a loose cyme from leaf axils and a yellow central disc in diameter. Flowering occurs from October to April and the fruit is a flattened, reddish brown cypsela with several spines long.[2] [3]
Calotis dentex was first formally described in 1820 by Robert Brown and the description was published in Consisting of Coloured Figures of Exotic Plants, Cultivated in British Gardens; with their History and Mode of Treatmentand the type specimen was collected at Sydney by Robert Brown. The specific epithet "dentex" refers to the toothed edges of the leaves.[4] [5]
White burr-daisy grows mostly on clay soils in grasslands and open forests in New South Wales and Queensland.[1]