Podolepis decipiens, commonly known as deceiving copperwire-daisy,[1] 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.
Podolepis decipiens is a perennial herb to 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, long, wide, leaves toward apex stem-clasping, sessile, mostly linear to linear to lance-shaped, usually long and wide. The flowers are bright yellow or orange, usually single, with 20-40 fringed petals, mostly in diameter, bracts papery in several rows and on a peduncle long. Flowering occurs from August to February and the fruit is a cypsela long, about wide and covered with barbed bristles.[1] [2] [3]
Podolepis decipiens was first formally described in 2015 by Jeffrey A. Jeanes and the description was published in Muelleria.[4] [5] The specific epithet (decipiens) means "deceiving" because in has been confused with Podolepis jaceoides.[5] [6]
Deceiving copper wire-daisy is a widespread species found in a variety of habitats including grasslands, woodlands, forests, alpine and near coastal locations in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Queensland.[2] [3]