Microseris scapigera

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.

Microseris scapigera
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M. scapigera
Binomial name
Microseris scapigera
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.

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]

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References

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


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