Photo of a head of small, white, star-shaped flowers with exserted stigmas.

I end the week with a final Asterales photo. It's a gorgeous shot of Boopis anthemoides by Anibal Prina CCBYNC4 via
iNaturalist. Yes, the genus name is Boopis. It's fun to say. 🤭#Asterales #Calyceraceae #lesserknownAsterales #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

Photo of woody leafy branches with small, star-shaped yellow flowers.

New Zealand’s Corokia x virgatais a natural hybrid of C. buddleioides and C. cotoneaster. It's a woody shrub. The petals are basally connate and have adaxial fringed ligules, typical of the family. #Argophyllaceae #Asterales #lesserknownAsterales #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

Photo of a shoot with large, strappy leaves and clusters of small white and pink flowers borne in panicles.

Close-up of an inflorescence branch with white, 5-merous flowers on pink pedicels.

Phellinaceae are New Caledonia endemics. They are dioecious, woody, subcanopy plants (litter-trappers?), with small flowers, free, valvate petals & a broad, sessile stigma. 📷: Phelline dumbeensis by Emilie Ducouret CCBYNCND4.0 #Asterales #Phellinaceae #lesserknownAsterales #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

Photo of a leafy shoot bearing a single, white tubular flower with 5 corolla lobes that are highly crisped and fringed.

Alseuosmiaceae are woody plants of New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand & New Caledonia. Their flowers are usually tubular with fringed lobes. Fruit is a berry. This is the aptly named Crispiloba disperma by Rene CCBYNC4 via iNaturalist.
#Asterales #lesserknownAsterales #Alseuosmiaceae #Botany 🌾🧪

Photo of an herbaceous plant with simple, fleshy leaves and short, white scorpioid cymes.

Pentaphragmataceae are from S.E. Asia. They are fleshy herbs with two-ranked, asymmetric leaves. They have scorpioid cymes with sessile flowers & berry-like fruits. This is Pentaphragma horsfieldii. #Pentaphragmataceae #lesserknownAsterales #Asterales #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

Photo of a rosette plant growing among pebbles. A large scape with a dense head of flowers is subtended by secondary scapes and smaller heads.

Photo of a rosette plant with a sessile head of flowers in the center of the rosette.

A couple more photos (from iNaturalist) of Calyceraceae just because they are so awesome!
1st photo: Gamocarpha macrocephala by Manlio Martínez Barona CC BY-NC4
2nd photo: Calycera monocephala by Catherine Fox CC BY-NC4
#lesserknownAsterales #Asterales #Calyceraceae #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪

Close-up photo of the head of flowers, which are blue. Each flower has an exserted, white, shovel-shaped gynoecium.

Goodeniaceae are famous for their gynoecium that is tipped with a pollen-collecting cup or ridge (indusium) as part of their pollen presentation. The white, spade-like indusium can be seen on this Brunonia australis (Kevin Thiele CC BY2) #Goodeniaceae #lesserknownAsterales #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪