Microseris scapigera

Microseris scapigera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Subfamily:	Cichorioideae
Tribe:	Cichorieae
Genus:	Microseris
Species:	M. scapigera
Binomial name
	Microseris scapigera; (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Sch.Bip.
Synonyms[1]
	Leontodon lactucoides Banks & Sol. ex Hook.f. nom. inval.; Microseris forsteri Hook.f. nom. illeg.; Microseris latifolia Gand.; Microseris obtusifolia Gand.; Microseris tenuicula Gand.; Microseris walteri Gand.; Scorzonella scapigera (A.Cunn.) Greene; Scorzonera lawrencii Hook.f.; Scorzonera scapigera G.Forst. nom. inval.; Scorzonera scapigera Sol. ex A.Cunn.;

Microseris scapigera, sometimes called the daisy yam, is a yellow flowered daisy, perennial, herb, found in New Zealand and Australia.[2][3] It's in a group of plant species, Cichorieae (tribe) having milky sap, which includes Chicory and Dandelion.

Now rare and vulnerable due to loss of habitat.[4]

Uses

Aboriginal populations in southeastern Australia relied on tubers of the daisy yam as a staple,[5] and actively cultivated it.[6] It is known as ngampa in the Thura-Yura languages.[7]

References

The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, retrieved 1 July 2016
Flora Committee (2010). Breitwieser, I.; Brownsey, P.; Ford, K.; Glenny, D.; Heenan, P.; Wilton, A. (eds.). "Microseris scapigera (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Sch.Bip". Flora of New Zealand. Online Edition. Accessed at www.nzflora.info. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
Lunt, Ian (January 2016). "A Transient Soil Seed Bank for the Yam-daisy Microseris scapigera.". The Victorian Naturalist. 113 (1): 16–19. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
"Flora of Victoria". vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
Beth Gott, ‘Murnong — Microseris scapigera: a study of a staple food of Victorian Aborigines’, Australian Aboriginal Studies, no. 2, 1983, pp. 12, 14.
Pascoe, Bruce (2018), Dark Emu : aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture, Magabala Books, ISBN 978-1-925768-95-4
Simpson, Jane and Luise Hercus. 2004. Thura-Yura as a Subgroup. In Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (eds.), Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, 179-206, 580-645. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

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[1] The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, retrieved 1 July 2016

[NZFlora-2] Flora Committee (2010). Breitwieser, I.; Brownsey, P.; Ford, K.; Glenny, D.; Heenan, P.; Wilton, A. (eds.). "Microseris scapigera (Sol. ex A.Cunn.) Sch.Bip". Flora of New Zealand. Online Edition. Accessed at www.nzflora.info. Retrieved 4 March 2013.

[Lunt-3] Lunt, Ian (January 2016). "A Transient Soil Seed Bank for the Yam-daisy Microseris scapigera.". The Victorian Naturalist. 113 (1): 16–19. Retrieved 3 July 2018.

[4] "Flora of Victoria". vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 26 June 2020.

[5] Beth Gott, ‘Murnong — Microseris scapigera: a study of a staple food of Victorian Aborigines’, Australian Aboriginal Studies, no. 2, 1983, pp. 12, 14.

[6] Pascoe, Bruce (2018), Dark Emu : aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture, Magabala Books, ISBN 978-1-925768-95-4

[7] Simpson, Jane and Luise Hercus. 2004. Thura-Yura as a Subgroup. In Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (eds.), Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, 179-206, 580-645. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.